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    • Rights: Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Published 2 April 2012 Size: 31 KB Referencing Hub media

    A sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colours indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points towards and away from the observer, respectively.

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      Mapping the Milky Way’s magnetic field

      Astronomers at Victoria University were part of an international team led by Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), which has pooled their radio astronomy observations of the ...

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