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Galactic scale magnetism has long been poorly understood. But a new map of our Milky Way's innermost core —- not too far from Sag A*, the supermassive black hole at our galactic center —- is giving astronomers a better understanding of the role that magnetism plays in regulating tar both structure and star formation within our own galaxy.
The galactic center is a unique part of our galaxy, the densities are higher, the velocities are faster, and the magnetic fields there are doing things that we don't see in other regions, Team leader David Chuss, chairman of Villanova University’s physics dept. in Pennsylvania. The survey was initially proposed to address the question of how magnetic fields at infrared wavelengths vary throughout the CMZ, note the authors of a paper just submitted toFIREPLACE is a survey of the far-infrared emission from cool dust grains within the central 500 light years of our galaxy, which via magnetism have aligned themselves with the region’s magnetic fields.
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