October 25, 2016

HI4PI survey map (Image courtesy Benjamin Winkel, Max Planck Institute, and the HI4PI collaboration.)

An article published in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” describes the creation of a map of neutral atomic hydrogen in the Milky Way. An international team of scientists put together data collected by two of the largest steerable radio telescopes in the world, the 100-m Max-Planck radio telescope in Effelsberg, Germany and the 64-m CSIRO radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.