In this episode, Dr Panopoulou spoke about how every galaxy has a magnetic field, and by using the polarisation of light we are able to map the structure of this field in our galaxy. We talked about the difficulties of doing this, including the limited information the polarisation of light can convey and how hard it is to check the accuracy of any results.
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Dr Kareem El-Badry, incoming Assistant professor at Caltech
Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand, Professor of Astronomy at Caltech
Dr Maria Charisi, Postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt University
Dr Robert Simcoe, Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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