{"id":5484,"date":"2023-01-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2023-01-18T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:50:49","slug":"astronomers-reveal-the-most-detailed-radio-image-yet-of-the-milky-ways-galactic-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/astronomers-reveal-the-most-detailed-radio-image-yet-of-the-milky-ways-galactic-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers reveal the most detailed radio image yet of the Milky Way\u2019s galactic plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Combined images from the ASKAP and Parkes radio telescopes.\n R. Kothes (NRC) and the PEGASUS team<\/span>, Author provided<\/span><\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n\nAndrew Hopkins<\/a>, Macquarie University<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: where are all the supernova remnants? <\/p>\n\n

A supernova remnant<\/a> is an expanding cloud of gas and dust marking the last phase in the life of a star, after it has exploded as a supernova. But the number of supernova remnants we have detected so far with radio telescopes is too low. Models predict five times as many, so where are the missing ones? <\/p>\n\n

We have combined observations from two of Australia\u2019s world-leading radio telescopes, the ASKAP radio telescope<\/a> and the Parkes radio telescope, Murriyang<\/a>, to answer this question.<\/p>\n\n

The gas between the stars<\/h2>\n\n
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