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This wide-field image shows the patch of sky around the distant quasar PKS 1939-315 (green cross). Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD.

Strangely Shaped Plasma Lenses May Lurk in Milky Way’s Interstellar Medium

Jan 21, 2016 by News Staff

According to a team of astronomers led by Dr. Keith Bannister of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Division, invisible noodle- or hazelnut-shaped plasma...