Milky Way captured in stunning detail from Southern hemisphere telescopes

Astronomers stitched together a radio color map of the Milky Way that targets the southern stretch of its crowded midline. It captures low frequency structure across about 3,800 square degrees with crisp detail.The work comes out of Western Australia, where an international team processed mountains of data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). They turned it into a public image and a matched catalog for scientists, students, and the simply curious.