Astronomy / Space Milky way's new look
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Probably turn out that the telescope lens or something is warped.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/04/milky-way-is-warped-and-twisted-not-flat
There's a link in the above article that goes to the data.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/04/milky-way-is-warped-and-twisted-not-flat
There's a link in the above article that goes to the data.
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Why? Is there something fun going on out there on Pluto that they didn't tell us about?
People have been trying to say it's not a planet!
It’s a planet, just a dwarf planet is all.
Look forward to the updated galaxy shape in the next update! [big grin]
Chen, X. et al. An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp’s precession traced by classical Cepheids. Nature Astronomy 1 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0686-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0686-7
Chen, X. et al. An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic warp’s precession traced by classical Cepheids. Nature Astronomy 1 (2019). doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0686-7
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0686-7
Dammit! I thought they'd fixed the skybox in game.
I'm disgusted. I'm going to form the Flat Galaxy Society in protest.
Wait, isn't that an in-game faction already? What's next Make the Galaxy Great Again space fascists?
We'll build a wall around the bubble and make the Thargoids pay for it.
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It isn't a radical new model, it is a presentation of evidence that the Milky Way is similar to other spiral galaxies.
Have a read of this for example:
https://www.iiap.res.in/PostDocuments/KanakSaha_27Sep07.pdf
(Old presentation but illustrates the galaxy warp situation.)
Have a read of this for example:
https://www.iiap.res.in/PostDocuments/KanakSaha_27Sep07.pdf
(Old presentation but illustrates the galaxy warp situation.)
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Or maybe... the Thargoids know that we just ruin every system we move into, so they're intentionally manipulating the xenophobes among us into building a wall around our own bubble....
Agreed. I was annoyed to find a wall of text rather than eye candy to feast upon. Worthless article
And it will mean that we'll win our space-willy measuring contest against that amateur Dyson.
"Call that a sphere? This is a sphere!"
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