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Scientists have created a detailed map of the Milky Way using two of the world's largest fully steerable radio telescopes in Germany and Australia.

The research looked at neutral atomic hydrogen, the most abundant element in space and the main component of stars and galaxies across the whole sky in a survey known as HI4PI.

Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths from The Australian National University (ANU), said, the study revealed for the first time the fine details of the structures between stars in the Milky Way.

McClure-Griffiths, said, her research group would use the map to sharpen their work with the Square Kilometer Array and the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, which will provide even more detailed maps of the Milky Way.

The HI4PI project used the largest fully steerable radio telescopes in the southern and northern hemispheres, Australia's 64m CSIRO Parkes dish and the 100m Max-Planck telescope in Effelsberg, Germany.

The HI4PI data show a wealth of filamentary structures never seen before. Tiny clouds become visible that appear to have fueled star formation in the Milky Way for billions of years.

 

The project improves the previous neutral hydrogen study, the Leiden-Argentine-Bonn (LAB) survey, by a factor of two in sensitivity and a factor of four in angular resolution.