A cosmic mystery.
"We have studied individual filaments for a long time with a myopic view," Yusef-Zadeh said inNeedless to say, it's a significant moment in his career-long investigation.
"Just examining a few filaments makes it difficult to draw any real conclusion about what they are and where they came from," he added. "This is a watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures." To create the panorama, the team stitched together 20 separate observations made over 200 hours by the MeerKAT observatory. The resulting image is awe-inspiring, and "like modern art," according to Yusef-Zadeh.Despite the advancements and an abundance of questions left to answer, the team is willing to make some educated guesses.
The variation in the radiation emitted by the filaments for instance suggest they aren't the leftovers of supernovae, but rather the result of past activity of the"This is the first time we have been able to study statistical characteristics of the filaments," Yusef-Zadeh said in the statement. For instance, the team discovered that magnetic fields are being amplified along the strands.
But getting a full understanding will require "more observations and theoretical analyses," he said, a process that "takes time."
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