Wednesday, August 30, 2017

VLA reveals distant galaxy's magnetic field

08/30/2017 12:23 PM EDT

silhouettes of the Y-shaped Very Large Array working hard against a sunset in central New Mexico

A chance combination of a gravitational lens and polarized waves coming from a distant quasar gave astronomers the tool needed to make a measurement important to understanding the origin of magnetic fields in galaxies.


Full story at https://public.nrao.edu/news/vla-reveals-magnetic-field/

Source
National Radio Astronomy Observatory


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