A neutrino portrait of our galaxy reveals high-energy particles from within the Milky Way

  • Written by: Jenni Adams, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury
A neutrino portrait of our galaxy reveals high-energy particles from within the Milky WayIceCube Collaboration/Science Communication Lab for CRC 1491

Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars stretching from horizon to horizon.

For the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos – tiny,...

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