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Scientists chart high-precision map of Milky Way's magnetic fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest precision map to date of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map

Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

New all-sky map shows the magnetic fields of the Milky Way with the highest precision

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New map of cosmic rays in the Southern sky presented at physics meeting

For the first time, scientists have an almost complete sky map of high-energy cosmic rays.

Physics / General Physics

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Solar Scientists Use 'Magnetic Mirror Effect' to Reproduce IBEX Observation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, mission scientists released the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system's edge in particles, solar physicists have been busy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast