Twitter Facebook Flickr YouTube  February 2013: Bubbles
February 2013  In the show this time, we talk to Dr Ettore
Carretti about magnetised outflows from the Milky Way, Stuart
rounds up the latest news and we hear what we can see in the
February night sky from Ian Morison and John Field.  The News
This month in the news: bubble trouble for the Milky Way, solar
snapshots and synchronised dancing dwarves.  Interview with Dr
Ettore Carretti  In this episode, we caught up with Dr. Ettore
Carretti, from CSIRO in Australia. Dr. Carretti and his team
recently published a paper in Nature announcing the discovery of
large, magnetized gas outflows from the centre of the Milky Way.
They found these structures using polarization measurements
taken using the Parkes radio telescope. Here, he sheds some
light for us on the significance of the discovery - explaining
why we'd never seen such large structures in the middle of our
galaxy before, and what future observations could tell us about
these outflows.  The Night Sky