Milky Way is Spouting Geysers

Milky Way galaxy is mankind home, it is a giant geyser. The greatest electro-magnetic waves that spread out from the bursts of particles.

"Energy bursts million times compared to the stars explosion," said lead researcher from the Australian Science Institute (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation / CSIRO), Ettore Carretti, on CSIRO official website on January 3, 2013.

The astronomers team saw the Milky Way geysers with the radio telescope at Parkes Observatory, located in New South Wales, Australia. This telescope has 64 meter of diameter, that functioning as antenna to saw the energetic flow. The outflows were detected by astronomers from Australia, the USA, Italy and The Netherlands. They report their finding in today's issue of Nature.

CSIRO's 64-m Parkes radio telescope. (Picture from: http://www.csiro.au/)

The flow containing the cosmic particles originating from the galactic center. These particles came rushing into two opposite directions, ie north and south galaxies pole. Velocity of sliding particle reaches 1,000 kilometers per second. If the particle is passing in the earth's surface, traveling from Jakarta to Denpasar can be reached within a second. "It's very fast, even for us that usual to study of celestial bodies," said Carretti.

The new-found outflows of particles (pale blue) from the Galactic Centre. The background image is the whole Milky Way at the same scale. The curvature of the outflows is real, not a distortion caused by the imaging process. (Picture from: http://www.csiro.au/)

Luckily for humans, these bursts do not lead to the earth. Our planet is located in the disk of the galaxy, not at the poles, with the distance of 30 thousand years from the center spurt. "There is absolutely no danger to us," he said.

Bursts extends as far as 50 thousand light years measured from the north end to the south. This size is equivalent to a half stretch of the Milky Way galaxy has a disc with 100 thousand light years of diameter. Seen from Earth, the outflows stretch about two-thirds across the sky from horizon to horizon.

The first signs of the bursts seen in 2010 by three space telescopes, the WMAP, Planck, and Fermi. But the image that is presented not as clear now so not worth mentioning as evidence. Instead from the telescopes on Earth, the astronomers can get clearly photograph of this geysers. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | CSIRO.AU | ANTON WILLIAM | KORAN TEMPO 4107]

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