{"id":99175,"date":"2019-11-29T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/mapping-our-galaxys-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2019-11-29T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:55:11","slug":"mapping-our-galaxys-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/mapping-our-galaxys-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Mapping our galaxy\u2019s magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-our-galaxys-magnetic-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from CSIRO and Curtin University have used pulsars to probe the Milky Way\u2019s magnetic field. Working with colleagues in Europe, Canada, and South Africa, they have published the most precise catalogue of measurements towards mapping our Galaxy\u2019s magnetic field in 3D.<\/p>\n<p>The Milky Way\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic field<\/a> is thousands of times weaker than Earth\u2019s, but is of great significance for tracing the paths of cosmic rays, star formation, and many other astrophysical processes. However, our knowledge of the Milky Way\u2019s 3D structure is limited.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Charlotte Sobey, the lead author of the research paper, said \u201cWe used pulsars (rapidly-rotating neutron stars) to efficiently probe the Galaxy\u2019s magnetic field in 3D. Pulsars are distributed throughout the Milky Way, and the intervening material in the Galaxy affects their radio-wave emission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from CSIRO and Curtin University have used pulsars to probe the Milky Way\u2019s magnetic field. Working with colleagues in Europe, Canada, and South Africa, they have published the most precise catalogue of measurements towards mapping our Galaxy\u2019s magnetic field in 3D. The Milky Way\u2019s magnetic field is thousands of times weaker than Earth\u2019s, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}