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The magnetic sky
On May 6, the team behind the now-inoperative Planck space telescope released a map of the magnetic field pervading the Milky Way galaxy. Titled ‘Milky Way’s Magnetic Fingerprint’, the map incorporates two textures to visualize the magnetic field’s dual qualities: … Continue reading
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Tagged BICEP2, cosmic inflation, dust grains, magnetic fields, Planck space telescope, polarization
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Our universe, the poor man’s accelerator
That cosmic inflation may have happened at a higher-than-anticipated energy means physicists have access to the young universe through astronomical data. Continue reading
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Tagged astrophysics, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, cosmic microwave background, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Large Hadron Collider
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