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✨🗺️ You’re looking at the largest ever magnetic map of the Universe! Magnetic fields influence how galaxies grow, how matter moves through space, and how the Universe has evolved over billions of years. 🧲 With this new map, scientists can now study how magnetic fields influence interactions between galaxies, including our own Milky Way and its neighbours, the Magellanic Clouds. The map was produced by an international team led by researchers at CSIRO and the SKAO, including our very own Dr Alec Thomson, Dr George Heald and Prof. Naomi McClure-Griffiths, using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope, an SKA precursor located on Wajarri Yamaji Country in Western Australia. 📡 The future is bright for this type of research – the SKA telescopes will reveal the cosmic web in even greater detail and help to uncover the origin of magnetic fields in the Universe! Read more from lead researcher Dr Thomson on how this map was created in this article: https://loom.ly/jakKnmA Image credit: CSIRO/Alex Cherney/Sam Moorfield #astronomy #science