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Nature 446, 600-604 (5 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446600a; Published online 4 April 2007

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A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away

Jeff Kanipe1

  1. Jeff Kanipe is a science writer based in Maryland.

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Vast stellar nurseries, clouds that dwarf the Solar System and lurking swarms of black holes. Jeff Kanipe probes the unfolding mysteries at the heart of the Milky Way.

Before it was seen, it was heard. In the early 1930s, a Bell Labs engineer named Karl Jansky was given the job of sorting out where the static interference in radio transmissions came from.

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