Astronomers have revealed the first super-resolution image of the Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered approx Twenty stars in the blast in Milky WayThanks to detailed radio observations that can reveal more events of this kind in the Galaxy.

A star is expected in the Milky Way Explodes Almost like a supernova Once every 100 years. you are violent bombings The dramatic final death throes of massive stars as they run out of fuel can catapult huge clouds of dust and gas to locations several light-years from the star.

these “supernova remnant” It can last for thousands of years before it dissipates. Studying them can reveal useful information about the galaxy, because it often contains heavy elements that give rise to other stars, planets, and even life itself.

Hundreds of these remnants have been found throughout the Milky Way, but astronomers think they only noticed fifth of the total number. Most of them detect the radio emissions of the debris as it expands, revealing its otherwise invisible shapes, but many are too faint to pick up.

He explained in an interview with the scientific journal that “there is a problem with the disappearance of the supernova remnants.” nature Brianna Paul who studies astronomy in University of Alberta (Canada). He added, “We know how much we should see, and we see much less.”

On January 16, a project led by Ball was revealed A new way to track supernova remnants. Combine control power Australian Square Kilometer Pathfinder Array (ASKAP), A 36-antenna radio telescope located in Western Australia paired with the Parkes Telescope, a single satellite dish located in New South Wales (Australia), to detect unseen supernova remnants in a region of the night sky.

We found out 21 new candidates “, claimed Roland Kothes, radio astronomer National Research Council of Canada in win over And the ball supervisor. “This picture was the first test we did, and it worked amazingly well,” he explained. The work has not yet been published.

The image released by the team contains Five out of the 21 newly discovered supernova remnants, Including one in the shape of a figure eight, faintly shown at the top left. The image was captured along one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, the Norma Arm, near the galaxy’s dense center, where visible light is largely blocked by dust and gas.

to me Carlos Padis, astronomer University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Whoever studies supernova remnants, finding these new remnants may give us more information about the “types of stars that explode as supernovae.” “It’s really cool that these guys are doing this,” he said.

ASKAP launched a five-year survey of the entire Southern Hemisphere sky, which represents half of the visible galaxy, last year. Many supernova remnants are expected to appear. “We’re discovering sources that previous telescopes weren’t able to detect because they didn’t have them Precision Waved sensitive it is necessary. “We expect this to be detected by a large population,” Paul concluded.

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