LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of Los Alamos National Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields ...

Astronomers have detected ordered magnetic fields in galaxies so young that conventional models struggle to explain how those fields formed so fast. Observations from the Atacama Large ...

Astronomers produced the most detailed map yet of a galactic bone's magnetic field. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers ...

Scientists have developed Europe’s first simulator capable of recreating galactic cosmic rays, one of ...

Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way’s magnetic field, a critical missing piece of the galactic puzzle. Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense pockets of gas ...

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A view of the center of our galaxy shows the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, where cold dust (magenta) and warmer gas and dust (cyan) surround a cluster of massive stars. The stars generate high-speed ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of astronomers created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Previous studies on galactic magnetic fields only gave a very ...

The white lines superimposed on this image of the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way show the polarization, or orientation, of light. This correlates with the orientation of local magnetic field lines.