Astronomers Rethink The Milky Way's Shape
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Scientists thought our home galaxy was a four-armed spiral. Now they think it is a different shape.
Scientists thought our home galaxy was a four-armed spiral. Now they think it is a different shape.
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Astronomers Rethink The Milky Way's Shape
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Zoom into the Milky Way: 84 million stars revealed – big picture
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IoW_20200108 - Gaia - Cosmos
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How we learned the shape of the Milky Way
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dark matter halo Archives - Universe Today
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Astronomers discover giant wave-shaped structure in the Milky Way
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Massive 'dead' disk-shaped galaxy discovered using NASA's Space
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Harvard Astronomers Have Revealed the True Shape of the Milky
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Research prompts a rethink of Milky Way's shape