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This is an incredible image and the filaments are super-mysterious. Do you know how large the objects in the image are? Are we looking at the whole Milky Way or
by jl6 5y ago
This is an incredible image and the filaments are super-mysterious. Do you know how large the objects in the image are? Are we looking at the whole Milky Way or a very zoomed-in part of the center?
- stargazer-3 5y agoZoomed-in part in the center, "1400 light-years across the centre of the Galaxy." as a linked paper indicates. Milky Way is long, 105700 light years in diameter.
- raattgift 5y agoAlong these lines, why SARAO's MeerKAT radio telescope (https://www.sarao.ac.za/science/meerkat/about-meerkat/ https://www.sarao.ac.za/science/meerkat/about-meerkat/) is the observatory behind this discovery is that it has a good view of the galactic centre because of the orientation of the Earth and solar system within the galaxy : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motion_of_Sun,_Earth_and_Moon_around_the_Milky_Way.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motion_of_Sun,_Earth...