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Breathtaking Image Reveals The Colossal Magnetic Field of a Distant Spiral Galaxy – ScienceAlert
Spiral galaxies look nice and tidy, with most of their stars and gas confined to a disc neatly arranged in swirling spiral arms. But there’s a lot more to a galaxy than what we can see, as a new image of invisible phenomena adroitly demonstrates.
Spiral galaxies look nice and tidy, with most of their stars and gas confined to a disc neatly arranged in swirling spiral arms. But there’s a lot more to a galaxy than what we can see, as a new image of invisible phenomena adroitly demonstrates.
The image shows a galaxy called NGC 4217, around 67 million light-years from the Milky Way, viewed edge-on – and pictured amidst a mapped visualisation of the galaxy’s vast, complex magnetic field, sprawling out some 22,500 light-years into the space a…
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