El telescopio 'IceCube', en el Polo Sur, durante una aurora austral. YUYA MAKINO, ICECUBE/NSF

Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos—tiny, ghostlike astronomical messengers. In an article to be published tomorrow, June 30, in the journal Science, the IceCube Collaboration, an international group of over 350 scientists, presents evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from the Milky Way...

Our galaxy seen through a new lens: neutrinos detected by IceCube