One-off-radio-burst

[Music plays and image appears of a distant galaxy and text appears: A gigantic explosion in a distant galaxy generated a fast radio burst…]

[Image appears of an explosion then changes to show the planet earth, centred on Australia and text appears: …that travelled for more than 3 billion years before sweeping past the ASKAP radio telescope]

[Image appears of the ASKAP radio telescope array with a beam of light strobing across]

[Image appears of a building with the light ray beaming through a window to the inside of the building and text appears: A team of scientists crunched the faint signals through a massive computer…]

[Image appears of a mainframe computer]

[Image appears of a line graph against the computer background with an alphanumeric code and text appears: …and determined the location of the burst]

[Image appears of two large telescopes against a starry sky with the alphanumeric code and text appears: Three of the world’s largest telescopes were trained on this patch of sky…]

[Image appears of a third telescope beaming into the sky with the same alphanumeric code]

[Image appears of three telescopes rotating]

[Image appears of a graticule moving outwards into the universe and text appears: …and revealed where the explosion took place.]

[Image appears of a galaxy with declination and ascension axis and a circle is shown moving inwards to a specific location and text appears: The outer regions of a massive galaxy]

[Image shows an array of telescopes and text appears: ASKAP in concert with optical telescopes will be able to localise thousands of bursts. These will be used to solve the mystery of what causes them and weigh the cosmic web.]

[Text appears: the MRO and the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope are managed and operated by CSIRO – www.csiro.au Images proved by ESO Gemini Observatory/AURA, Sean Goebel/W. M. Keck Observatory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, JMA]

[CSIRO logo appears]