Astronomers Find Largest Structure in the Milky Way Galaxy

The Milky Way galaxy still holds a million mysteries to this day. This also encourages astronomers to always pay attention to each structure found.

This time, astronomers from the Max Planck Institute of Astronomy (MPIA) discovered the largest structure ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy .

The structure, called Maggie, is a structure consisting of filaments of hydrogen gas atoms.

Maggie is located at a distance of 55,000 light years and is the most distant structure ever found. Through these findings, astronomers also tried to explore the structure in more detail.

The deepening was done with a very large array (VLA) device. Through the device, astronomers try to study the molecular cloud formation of the structure.

Next, astronomers convert from atomic to molecular hydrogen. In addition, the deepening is also done through the magentic field of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Through this deepening, astronomers can find out whether this structure has the potential to become a new star. This structure has the opportunity to become a new star if the two dominant hydrogen isotope molecules turn into a cloud.

In addition, this research also tries to determine the average velocity of the filaments in the structure. From that exploration, astronomers were able to determine that Maggie is a coherent structure.

Maggie is called the largest structure because its size is above the average structure found so far.

Usually, the structures found so far are about 800 light years long. While Maggie is a structure with a length of about 3,900 light years and passing about 130 light years.

Next, this study will be continued through a number of other studies. The deepening will also be equipped with space telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Square Kilometer Array (SKA).

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