The team observed
polarized light coming from dust within the nebula using several facilities, including the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array.
All down to dust In the joint analysis, the researchers overlaid data recorded by the BICEP2 telescope at a frequency of 150 gigahertz (GHz) with data recorded from the same patch of sky by Planck at 353 GHz, a frequency at which almost all
the polarized light comes from dust.
Not exact matches
Because electrons scatter
polarized light more than non-
polarized light, that observation will give the scientists a bead on what the electrons are doing, and by extension, what the solar wind is doing — how fast it flows, how hot it is and even where it
comes from.
The different colors that
come from the flowers, some of the
light that is reflected is going to be
polarized.