Joe Michail

Joe Michail

Astronomy Ph.D. student at Northwestern University studying the radio variability of the nearest supermassive blackhole Sgr A*.

APOD: The Central Magnetic Field of the Cigar Galaxy (March 11, 2019)

The magnetic field of the central few kiloparsecs of the Cigar Galaxy (M82). The background is a combined image from optical (gray), infrared (yellow), and Hydrogen (red) emission.
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This data was published in Jones et al. (2019) You can find the original post here