Gareth Samuel: Milky Way’s Largest Juvenile Filament | Thunderbolts
A massive structure recently observed in our galaxy is located about 55,000 light-years away on the other side of the Milky Way. This filament, called Maggie, is just shy of 4,000 light-years long and 130 light-years wide, extending about 1,600 light-years below the galactic plane. The diffuse nature of…














