A team of astronomers have for the first time captured of the interstellar turbulent gas in the Milky Way, commonly described as a pit of writhing snakes.

The images showed that space among stars in the Milky Way is not empty; rather it is filled with endlessly swirling and churning gas.

Published in the most recent edition of journal Nature, the images were captured with the help of the CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array, which allowed researchers to peep into a region situated around ten thousand light years away in the Norma constellation of the Milky Way.

Lead researcher Professor Bryan Gaensler, of the University of Sydney, claimed that it was the first time when scientists managed to capture the interstellar turbulence.

The study of the far away region revealed that turbulent gas was even playing a role in the formation of new stars.

Speaking on the study, Prof Gaensler added, "The radio emission that is unpolarised presents a fairly normal picture of the Milky Way disk, with cosmic rays and magnetic fields causing bright areas, particularly where new stars are forming.

The so-called snakes are regions of gas where the density and magnetic field are altering very quickly due to interstellar turbulence.