Milky way is the huge galaxy of which we are a part, and a recent announcement by researchers could also bring an explanation about how it has evolved up to the present moment over the course of billions of years. A large group of stars that rotate at a very high speed could provide important information regarding the evolution that the Milky Way has gone through until now, but also for the gas halo that surrounds it now.
Milky way its evolution could be explained by the group of stars called 47 Tucanae, which is located at a distance of approximately 15.000 light-years from Earth, somewhere at the edge of the galactic halo. According to researchers from Germany, in this grouping at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, there are 25 pulsars, that is, very dense neutron stars that spin up at high speed and emit radiation from two areas on their surface.
The Milky Way: The AMAZING Announcement That May Explain Its Evolution
The radiation emitted by these stars towards the Milky Way can only be observed when the stars are directed towards the Earth, and that is why they seem to twinkle or pulsate. Pulsars have very strong electromagnetic fields around them, and as charged particles pass through them, electrons are displaced that also emit radiation towards the Milky Way, and observing these phenomena could also explain how our galaxy evolved over time.
"In 2001, we noticed that pulsars on the far side of the cluster had a larger dispersion measure than those on the near side, which implied the presence of gas in the cluster. Pulsars in this cluster can give us a unique and unprecedented insight into the large-scale geometry of the magnetic field in the galactic halo."
Milky way could have explained the evolution by measuring the dislocation of electrons and the frequency of pulsations, the researchers being able to discover many secrets of our galaxy. Researchers have been analyzing that group of stars since 2001 using a radio telescope named Parkes, discovering that such formations have surprisingly strong magnetic fields, which are amplified by the galactic winds.
Milky way it is a very old galaxy, with millions of stars and planets, and all these analyzes are extremely important to be able to learn more about the "home" that hosts our planet now.
