Composite of Milky Way in visual light and neutrinos (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Composite of Milky Way in visual light and neutrinos

Caption

An artist's composite image of a photo of the Milky Way captured with visual light along with the first-ever neutrino-based image of the Milky Way. The detected neutrinos, depicted in blue, are shown positioned in their approximate location relative to the more familiar optical view of the Milky Way galaxy.

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IceCube Collaboration/U.S. National Science Foundation (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier)

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Image can be freely republished with credit to IceCube Collaboration/U.S. National Science Foundation (Lily Le & Shawn Johnson)/ESO (S. Brunier)

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