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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Spiral Galaxies are the prettiest...

I don't often post science news, but Naomi (the astronomer quoted in the article) is a very cool person, and this is cool news. It turns out that our galaxy isn't a normal spiral galaxy like we used to believe, but a barred spiral.

Astronomers have produced the best image yet of what our home galaxy would look like to an intergalactic traveller far above the Milky Way. The new image, created by scientists using the Spitzer space telescope, an infra-red sister of the Hubble, shows that the Milky Way's spiral arms are linked at the centre by a straight bar, 27,000 light years long - 7000 light years longer than previously thought.

- Linkie

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