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Magnetic fields under the lens

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An ingenious use of gravitational lensing allows the measurement of magnetic fields in a galaxy five billion years ago.

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Fig. 1: Large-scale magnetic field tracing the spiral structure in nearby galaxy M51.

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Lilly, S.J. Magnetic fields under the lens. Nat Astron 1, 565–566 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0230-1

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