1/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 1/2: The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.
Mar 09, 2023, 01:21 AM
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1/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 1/2: The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2116185118
Inner Workings: Astronomers are redrawing our corner of the Milky Way
We live in a giant barred spiral galaxy. The Milky Way’s fast-spinning disk of stars and gas whips up spiral arms that spawn new suns, while a bar of mostly older stars cuts through its heart. From afar, our galaxy likely resembles a glowing cosmic hurricane.:
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1/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 1/2: The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2116185118
Inner Workings: Astronomers are redrawing our corner of the Milky Way
We live in a giant barred spiral galaxy. The Milky Way’s fast-spinning disk of stars and gas whips up spiral arms that spawn new suns, while a bar of mostly older stars cuts through its heart. From afar, our galaxy likely resembles a glowing cosmic hurricane.: