![]() ![]() Swirls, loops and arches in this new image trace the structure of the magnetic field in our home galaxy, the Milky Way.In addition to its hundreds of billions of stars, our Galaxy is filled with a mixture of gas and dust, the raw material from which stars are born. By measuring the amount of polarization in this light, astronomers can study the physical processes that caused the polarization.In particular, polarization may reveal the existence and properties of magnetic fields in the medium light has travelled through.The map presented here was obtained using detectors on Planck that acted as the astronomical equivalent of polarized sunglasses. In space, the light emitted by stars, gas and dust can also be polarised in various ways. POINT – Undergraduate Physics Organization for Innovation and Technology.ARC – Undergraduate Aerospace Research Coop.Brazil Recovery of 3 mm sky survey (TMSS) – 1985.Interdisciplinary Center for Interstellar Exploration ( iC).Physics 150 – Modern Design and Fab – Fall 2019.INT 184 – PL Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar – Weapons of Mass Destruction – Spring 2013.Symmetry & Aesthetics in Contemporary Physics.Physics 134 – Observational Astrophysics – Spring 2023. ![]()
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