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Is this our galaxy?
« on: January 30, 2010, 07:42:33 PM »


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way#Composition_and_structure

"Observations presented in 2008 by Robert Benjamin of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater suggest that the Milky Way possesses only two major stellar arms: the Perseus arm and the Scutum-Centaurus arm. The rest of the arms are minor or adjunct arms. This would mean that the Milky Way is similar in appearance to NGC 1365."