mwc Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 “Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat. It is warped and twisted far away from the galactic center,” said co-author Przemek Mroz. “This is the first time we can use individual objects to show this in three dimensions,” some, he said, “as distant as the expected boundary of the Galactic disk.” Full Article mwc 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantheory Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Although most spiral galaxies appear to be on a flat plane, a number of them may be similarly twisted but undetectable from our perspective. The Milky Way seems to be one of the twisted ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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