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This is an incredible image and the filaments are super-mysterious. Do you know how large the objects in the image are? Are we looking at the whole Milky Way or a very zoomed-in part of the center?


Zoomed-in part in the center, "1400 light-years across the centre of the Galaxy." as a linked paper indicates. Milky Way is long, 105700 light years in diameter.


Along these lines, why SARAO's MeerKAT radio telescope (https://www.sarao.ac.za/science/meerkat/about-meerkat/) is the observatory behind this discovery is that it has a good view of the galactic centre because of the orientation of the Earth and solar system within the galaxy : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motion_of_Sun,_Earth...




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