Image: Giant magnetic ropes in a galaxy’s halo

This image of the “Whale Galaxy” (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy’s magnetic field protruding above and below the galaxy’s disk.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-11-image-giant-magnetic-ropes-galaxy.html