I Guess The “Spilled Toothpicks” Of Ionized Hydrogen… Are The Oddest Things, In This Image.

Just closing this out now. Welp. Exactly… why would ionized hydrogen (illustrated by dotted pink lines, here) — at the center of our Milky Way, at least, be aligned in randomly oriented long “needles“, something like toothpicks spilled from a box, onto the floor — where each toothpick is perhaps dozens of light years long?! That’s a mystery cosmologists will ponder in the next decades.

I’ll also… marvel that this bit of space science has an UNDERGRAD, at the University of Virginia, as its principal investigator. Well done, Samuel Crowe! [He is being advised and supervised by a full professor, to be fair.] But that’s one whale of a resume builder, for a 20 year old:

“➢ Discovered an entirely new form of ionized hydrogen structures — many light years across — at the center of the Milky Way, in Sag C…”

Wow.

नमस्ते

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