Exploring Astrophysics
Exploring Astrophysics
Vikram Bhamre
Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology
16 minutes Posted Dec 27, 2022 at 11:09 am.
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In this episode, Dr Panopoulou spoke about how every galaxy has a magnetic field, and by using the polarisation of light we are able to map the structure of this field in our galaxy. We talked about the difficulties of doing this, including the limited information the polarisation of light can convey and how hard it is to check the accuracy of any results.