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Madison WI (SPX) Jun 30, 2023 - Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory h
Scientists said on Thursday they have produced an image of the Milky Way not based on electromagnetic radiation - light - but on ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos.
A never-before-seen view of the galaxy has been glimpsed thanks to an astronomical detector buried in the Antarctic ice.
The latest image of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is essentially its reflection in a massive ice cube made by ghost particles.
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It's no surprise that neutrinos come from within our galaxy, but the tiny, chargeless particles are very hard to detect