Friday, 2 August 2019

New Study Shows the Milky Way Is a Bit Warped

New Study Shows the Milky Way Is a Bit Warped

esearchers in Poland have been able to chart our galaxy on a scale bigger than ever before by measuring the distance from our sun to thousands of individual pulsating stars scattered across the Milky Way. A newly created three-dimensional map (see below), which provides a broad view of our location in the cosmos, reveals the S-like structure of the Milky Way’s warped stellar disc. The map was published on Thursday in the journal Science.

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