Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy through the lens of neutrino particles.
It’s the first time we have seen our galaxy “painted” with a particle, rather than in different wavelengths of light.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory uses a gigatonne of the ultra-transparent ice under huge pressures to detect a form of energy called Cherenkov radiation.
Its result in roughly spherical showers of light and give the researchers a better level of sensitivity to the astrophysical neutrinos from the Milky Way.