Astronomers have produced the first high-resolution map of a massive explosion in a nearby galaxy, providing important clues on how the space between galaxies is polluted with chemical elements.
A team of international researchers studied galaxy NGC 4383, in the nearby Virgo cluster, revealing a gas outflow so large that it would take 20,000 years for light to travel from one side to the other.
The survey used the MUSE Integral Field Spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, located in northern Chile. "We hope that in the future, MAUVE observations reveal the importance of gas outflows in the local Universe with exquisite detail."Adam B Watts, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Eric Emsellem, Lodovico Coccato, Jesse van de Sande, Toby H Brown, Yago Ascasibar, Andrew Battisti, Alessandro Boselli, Timothy A Davis, Brent Groves, Sabine Thater.
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