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2021
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USRA’s Leslie Proudfit’s Artwork Featured on Nature Astronomy’s Cover

Composite image of Centaurus A. Magnetic fields from SOFIA are shown as streamlines over an image of the galaxy taken at visible and submillimeter wavelengths by the European Southern Observatory and Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, X-ray wavelengths from the Chandra X-Ray observatory and infrared from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al.; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; SOFIAColumbia, Maryland--June 2, 2021. Congratulations to USRA's extraordinarily talented graphic artist, Leslie Proudfit, whose artistic rendering of SOFIA's Magnetic Fields of Centaurus A was selected for the cover of the June issue of Nature Astronomy. The image accompanied the paper entitled "The Warped Magnetic Field of Centarus A" by Enrique Lopez Rodrigues and Joan Schmelz.

Composite image of Centaurus A. Magnetic fields from SOFIA are shown as streamlines over an image of the galaxy taken at visible and submillimeter wavelengths by the European Southern Observatory and Atacama Pathfinder Experiment, X-ray wavelengths from the Chandra X-Ray observatory and infrared from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: Optical: European Southern Observatory (ESO) Wide Field Imager; Submillimeter: Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy/ESO/Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)/A.Weiss et al.; X-ray and Infrared: NASA/Chandra/R. Kraft; JPL-Caltech/J. Keene; SOFIA

 

 

Additional Resources: The Magnetic Field Across the Molecular Warped Disk of Centaurus A