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Corey S Powell
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.

It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz.

https://www.icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-plane/ #space #science #nature #tech

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created one of the largest low-frequency radio colour images of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of the Galactic Plane – the disk of our Galaxy, which appears to human eyes as the glowing band of the Milky Way – now revealed across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created one of the largest low-frequency radio colour images of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of the Galactic Plane – the disk of our Galaxy, which appears to human eyes as the glowing band of the Milky Way – now revealed across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created one of the largest low-frequency radio colour images of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of the Galactic Plane – the disk of our Galaxy, which appears to human eyes as the glowing band of the Milky Way – now revealed across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.
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Corey S Powell
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Here's a comparison between the sky that you can see with your human eyes & the sky seen through the radio eyes of the Murchison Widefield Array in Western Australia.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/galactic-and-extragalactic-allsky-murchison-widefield-array-survey-extended-gleamx-iii-galactic-plane/C95F9B7DC74EC3F9D3DDCD1C43A905BD #space #astronomy #physics #nature

Top: The GLEAM/GLEAM-X view of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: S. Mantovanini & the GLEAM-X team
Bottom: The same area of the Milky Way in visible light. Credit: Axel Mellinger, milkywaysky.com
Top: The GLEAM/GLEAM-X view of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: S. Mantovanini & the GLEAM-X team Bottom: The same area of the Milky Way in visible light. Credit: Axel Mellinger, milkywaysky.com
Top: The GLEAM/GLEAM-X view of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: S. Mantovanini & the GLEAM-X team Bottom: The same area of the Milky Way in visible light. Credit: Axel Mellinger, milkywaysky.com
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