Two major astronomy programs, EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to unravel one of the mysteries of the Milky Way: where all supernova remnants are located.? As a result, they managed to get the most detailed images of a small region of our galaxy in the radio wave range, according to Science Alert..

The resulting images show thin tendrils and clumpy clouds associated with hydrogen gas filling the space between stars.. In addition, regions in which new stars and supernova remnants are formed are visible.. Only in a small area, which makes up about 1% of the Milky Way, more than 20 possible supernova remnants have been found, although only seven were previously known..

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It was possible to consider them thanks to the cooperation of two research programs. Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) - a program aimed at creating an atlas of the Southern Hemisphere in radio emission. As part of this project, scientists observe 40 million galaxies and supermassive black holes, which can help understand how galaxies have changed as the universe has evolved..

However, the telescopes used by the project cannot capture radio emission on the largest scales.. To recover the missing information, scientists turned to another project, PEGASUS. As a result, a new detailed image was obtained, which resembles the work of artists..

Previously, scientists were able to confirm that the galaxies recently discovered by the James Webb telescope are the most distant and oldest known at the moment.. They formed 13.4 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang..