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Telescope Offers 'Clearest View Yet' of Milky Way - Including Plasma Filaments (ska.ac.za)

Chris Reeve writes: The MeerKAT radio telescope was inaugurated in South Africa this past Friday, revealing the clearest view yet of the center of the Milky Way. What is especially surprising about the produced image are the numerous prominent filaments which seem to appear in the foreground.

Herschel made a similar announcement just three years prior that "Observations with ESA's Herschel space observatory have revealed that our Galaxy is threaded with filamentary structures on every length scale." Intriguingly, close inspection of yesterday's SKA image show these filaments twisting around one another, yet without combining — a phenomenon observable in most novelty plasma globes when the filaments are conducting electricity... The SKA telescopes is one of the first telescopes to witness these filaments because it is 50 times more powerful than any former telescope, but also because it is apparently one of the few telescopes which can observe dark mode plasmas. For these reasons, the SKA telescope will inevitably revive the debate over the underlying physical reasons for filaments which exhibit coherent thin magnetic structure over light-year distances.

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  1. Re: Electric Universe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    You do know that all visible phenomena, on earth and in the universe, are created by the propagation and interaction of electrical charges - what a common would call electricity. There does appear to be a huge bias for gravitation only cosmology, which is wierd because electric phenomena make everything in the iniverse actually work the way it does - otherwise the universe wouls be one huge singularity - there would be nothing to oppose mass colapse, nothing turning gravitational potential energy into fusion, light, life.