{"id":9851,"date":"2026-02-27T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:43:18","slug":"astronomers-surprised-by-mysterious-shock-wave-around-dead-star-eso-press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/astronomers-surprised-by-mysterious-shock-wave-around-dead-star-eso-press-release-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Largest image of its kind shows hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), this rich dataset \u2014 the largest ALMA image to date \u2014 will allow astronomers to probe the lives of stars in the most extreme region of our galaxy, next to the supermassive black hole at its centre. \u201c<em>It\u2019s a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail<\/em>,\u201d says Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany who is part of the team that obtained the new data. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2603\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1699\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png\" alt=\"Largest ALMA image ever shows the molecular gas in the centre of the Milky Way (Credit: ALMA(ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO)\/S. Longmore et al. Background: ESO\/D. Minniti et al.)\" class=\"wp-image-9856\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Largest ALMA image ever shows the molecular gas in the centre of the Milky Way (Credit: ALMA(ESO\/NAOJ\/NRAO)\/S. Longmore et al. Background: ESO\/D. Minniti et al.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), this rich dataset \u2014 the largest ALMA image to date \u2014 will allow astronomers to probe the lives of stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[390,365],"class_list":["post-9851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-eso-2","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",1699,690,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",150,61,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",300,122,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",768,312,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",1024,416,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",1536,624,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/alma-27-02-2026-eng.png",1699,690,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Astronomers have captured the central region of our Milky Way in a striking new image, unveiling a complex network of filaments of cosmic gas in unprecedented detail. Obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array (ALMA), this rich dataset \u2014 the largest ALMA image to date \u2014 will allow astronomers to probe the lives of stars in the most extreme region of our galaxy, next to the supermassive black hole at its centre. \u201cIt\u2019s a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail,\u201d says Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Germany&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9860,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}