First 'ghost particle' image of the Milky Way stuns scientists and stargazers alike
A new view of the Milky Way sees through neutrinos.
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A new view of the Milky Way sees through neutrinos.
Scientists have detected these strange particles from outer space before, but this is the first time they've caught cosmic neutrinos from our own Milky Way
The new mapping method may allow astronomers to study previously obscured parts of the galaxy and of the universe.
Neutrinos finally detected
Human beings for millennia have gazed with awe at the vast torrent of stars - bright and dim - shining in Earth's night sky that comprise the Milky Way. 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. It is not stars and planets and other stuff observable thanks to their light, but rather the mysterious sources of neutrinos originating in the galaxy, perhaps remnants of explosive star deaths called supernovas.