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Monday, 16 July 2018

The clearest view of the galactic centre

I bet this image could be cleaned up to tone down the saturation, though the raw FITS file isn't available yet as far as I know.

While it looks like a fiery swirling mess, the image shows never-before-seen features, such as the compact sources of those long, magnetised filaments that come off the central region. It also provides a clearer view than ever before of previously known supernova remnants and star-forming regions.

The long and narrow filaments you can see in the image were first discovered in the 1980s, but their origin has remained a mystery. They're seen near the central black hole of our galaxy, but nowhere else in the Milky Way.

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-brand-new-telescope-just-captured-the-clearest-image-of-the-milky-way-s-centre-ever-and-it-is-breathtaking

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