New Image of the Milky Way Reveals Massive Hidden Structures, What’s Out There?
The Daily Galaxy • • science
Key Points:
- Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way’s southern sky, using data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in Western Australia.
- The new image, part of the GLEAM-X survey, offers twice the resolution and ten times the sensitivity of previous surveys, covering twice as much sky and revealing thousands of structures such as supernova remnants and stellar nurseries.
- This enhanced view allows better identification of supernova remnants and pulsars, providing valuable insights into the life cycle of stars from birth to afterlife.
- The survey marks the first complete low-frequency radio mapping of the Southern Galactic Plane,
