The Milky Way has never been seen quite like this before

Astronomers in Australia have created the largest and most detailed low-frequency radio image ever made of the Milky Way, revealing Earth's galactic neighborhood in a new way. The colorful new picture is not an artist's acid-washed metal masterpiece but a view of the galaxy from the vantage point of the Southern Hemisphere. Because the image is based on radio waves rather than visible light, it shows otherwise hidden features of space. Researchers at the International Centre for Radio