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If life seems warped lately, it's not you. It's our Milky Way galaxy
A new map of the Milky Way confirms something researchers have long suspected: this galaxy is warped.
That’s right. The abiding sense of cosmic disarray you’re feeling is not just a sign of the times — it’s also a feature of our home in the stars.
The map, the first 3-D representation of the Milky Way, appeared last week in the journal Science. It shows that the vast collection of stellar bodies forms a distinct wavy S-shape.
Researchers at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw tracked thousands of young stars, known as Cepheids, to precisely chart the galaxy from edge to edge, a span of about 120,000 light-years.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/milky-way-galaxy-warped-like-an-s/
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