New sky survey reveals hundreds of thousands of galaxies

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 1822 GMT (0222 HKT) February 19, 2019

The Low Frequency Array telescope, or LOFAR, is helping astronomers find hundreds of thousands of previously unknown distant galaxies. Here are some of them.<br /><br />The galaxy cluster Abell1314 is 460 million light-years from Earth. The cluster merged with another cluster, creating an emission that could be detected by LOFAR.
Photos: LOFAR captures galaxies
The Low Frequency Array telescope, or LOFAR, is helping astronomers find hundreds of thousands of previously unknown distan