UMass Amherst: The Magnetic Field in and Around a Spiral Galaxy
July 23, 2020
July 23, 2020
AMHERST, Massachusetts, July 23 -- The University of Massachusetts-Amherst issued the following news:
This composite image shows the huge extent of a spiral galaxy's magnetic field. Galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-formingspiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. It is about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, according to astronomers in an international collaboration called CHANGES. The galaxy is seen edge-on in a visible-light image from the Sloan Digital Sky . . .
This composite image shows the huge extent of a spiral galaxy's magnetic field. Galaxy NGC 4217 is a star-formingspiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way. It is about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, according to astronomers in an international collaboration called CHANGES. The galaxy is seen edge-on in a visible-light image from the Sloan Digital Sky . . .