![The colour scale in the image shows the amount of infrared (heat) radiation coming from warm dust particles in the filaments and luminous stars within a light year of the Galactic centre. The observations were made with the largest telescope in Europe, wh The colour scale in the image shows the amount of infrared (heat) radiation coming from warm dust particles in the filaments and luminous stars within a light year of the Galactic centre. The observations were made with the largest telescope in Europe, wh](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/gallery/news/prensa1350_3058.jpg?itok=cuk1c4Fb)
An international team of astronomers uses the infrared camera on the Gran Telescopio Canarias to produce, for the first time, a high resolution map of the magnetic field in the clouds of gas and dust particles around the centre of our Galaxy.
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