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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: atomic7732 on January 30, 2010, 07:42:33 PM

Title: Is this our galaxy?
Post by: atomic7732 on January 30, 2010, 07:42:33 PM

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/PIA07901.png)

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."