Astronomers Reveal the “Skeletal Structure” of the Milky Way

Using infrared surveys from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have identified ten new filamentary dark clouds in the Milky Way and are looking for more in order to study the “skeletal” makeup of the galaxy. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a typical barred spiral galaxy, a flattened disk of about a hundred billion […]
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