Dec 14, 2019
Composite image of the Whale Galaxy revealing large magnetic structures.
The green lines indicate when the magnetic field is pointing toward the Earth and the blue lines where it is pointing away from the Earth.
Credit: Composite image by Jayanne English of the University of Manitoba, with NRAO VLA radio data from Silvia Carolina Mora-Partiarroyo and Marita Krause of the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.
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