Planck magnetic streamlines on a Herschel image of Rho Ophiuchi with insets from SOFIA/HAWC+
Constraining Magnetic and Gravitational Energies in Star-Forming Clouds
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The magnetic streamlines from Planck superposed on a three-color image of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex from Herschel. The higher-resolution insets from SOFIA/HAWC+ show clearly that the streamlines are oriented perpendicular to the structure.

Credit
ESA/Herschel/Planck; J. D. Soler, MPIA; Lee et al. 2021
Image Number
SCI2022_0007