Mystery of Light-Years-Long Strands at Milky Way’s Center
Traveling near the speed of light: an unprecedented new radio-telescope telescope image of the Milky Way Galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000 mysterious magnetic filaments shown below stretching up to 150 light years long. The one-dimensional strands are found in pairs and clusters, often stacked equally spaced, side by side like strings on a harp.