UPDATE January 19th 2021
Magnetic field streamlines detected by SOFIA are shown over an image of the Whirlpool galaxy, M51, from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. For the first time, SOFIA’s infrared view shows that the magnetic fields in the outer arms do not follow the galaxy’s spiral shape and are instead distorted. The intense star formation activity in these regions, shown in red, may be causing the chaos, along with the forces from the yellow neighboring galaxy, NGC 5195, tugging on one of the spiral arms. Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, A. Borlaff; NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
https://scitechdaily.com/hawc-reveals-magnetic-chaos-hidden-within-the-whirlpool-galaxy/
Clearly what the PhD learns about Messier 51 will help us understand our own Milky Way spiral galaxy …
stay tuned
UPDATE December 30th, 2020
It has been 5+ years since the last update in 2015.
This article we saw just today is from…
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