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22nd July 2011, 22:55
Infinity Symbol of Dense Gas Observed at the Centre of the Milky Way Galaxy
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A bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been observed by the Herschel Space Observatory.
Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before.
But Herschel’s view reveals the entire ring for the first time - and a strange kink that resembles a ribbon has astronomers scratching their heads.
Nasa researcher Alberto Noriega-Crespo, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said: ’We have looked at this region at the centre of the Milky Way many times before in the infrared.
’But when we looked at the high-resolution images using Herschel’s sub-millimetre wavelengths, the presence of a ring is quite clear.’
read more (http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=16158)
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A bizarre, twisted ring of dense gas at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been observed by the Herschel Space Observatory.
Only a few portions of the ring, which stretches across more than 600 light-years, were known before.
But Herschel’s view reveals the entire ring for the first time - and a strange kink that resembles a ribbon has astronomers scratching their heads.
Nasa researcher Alberto Noriega-Crespo, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said: ’We have looked at this region at the centre of the Milky Way many times before in the infrared.
’But when we looked at the high-resolution images using Herschel’s sub-millimetre wavelengths, the presence of a ring is quite clear.’
read more (http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=16158)