3 papers
astro-ph.EP2026
Increased and Varied Radiation during the Sun's Encounters with Cold Clouds in the last 10 million years
Merav Opher, Joe Giacalone, Abraham Loeb +7
Recent research raises the possibility that 3 and 7 million years ago, the Sun encountered massive clouds that shrank the heliosphere--the solar cocoon protecting our solar system-…
astro-ph.GA2025
FIELDMAPS Data Release: Far-Infrared Polarization in the "Bones" of the Milky Way
Simon Coudé, Ian W. Stephens, Philip C. Myers +13
Polarization observations of the Milky Way and many other spiral galaxies have found a close correspondence between the orientation of spiral arms and magnetic field lines on scale…
astro-ph.GA2025
Magnetic Fields in the Bones of the Milky Way
Ian W. Stephens, Simon Coude, Philip C. Myers +20
Stars primarily form in galactic spiral arms within dense, filamentary molecular clouds. The largest and most elongated of these molecular clouds are referred to as ``bones," which…