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Silvia Mantovanini, PhD Candidate, Astronomy, Curtin University

New images reveal the Milky Way’s stunning galactic plane in more detail than ever before

Silvia Mantovanini (ICRAR/Curtin) & the GLEAM-X Team

The Milky Way is a rich and complex environment. We see it as a luminous line stretching across the night sky, composed of innumerable stars.

But that’s just the visible light. Observing the sky in other ways, such as through radio waves, provides a much more nuanced scene – full of charged particles and magnetic fields.

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