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Magnetic Fields Can Map the Universe

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful?

Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within the Milky Way using a technique called Faraday rotation.

It works like this. There’s a bunch of dust – literal dust grains – floating within the galaxy.

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