A team of researchers led by Vincent Pelgrims (ULB) dust off the Galaxy to build the first 3D map of the Universe’s magnetic field. A new launch for astronomy, allowing us to explore the depths of the sky like never before. A study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
The space between stars is "dirty". It’s filled with grains of dust that tend to align themselves according to local magnetic fields. They emit polarized light, at the same frequencies as the cosmic microwave background - "the ashes of the Big Bang" - blurring our vision of the first instants of the Universe. ...
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