Tag: North Polar Spur (NPS)

An image of the Milky Way as seen at radio wavelengths and showing the prominent North Polar Spur, the larger Loop 1, and other features. Astronomers have measured the distance to the Spur from new Gaia satellite distances of molecular clouds and find that it is about five hundred light-years, much closer than proposed by some models that associated it with galactic nucleus and the Fermi bubbles. Haslam, C.G.T. et al., Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 1982

North Polar Spur: Gigantic Structure Observed In The Milky Way – New Study

MessageToEagle.com | March 1, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The North Polar Spur (NPS) is one of the largest structures observed in the Milky Way in both the radio and soft

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