Astronomy / Space This just in: Science cannot confirm the number of arms in the Milky Way!

[Roybe]

http://www.universetoday.com/120183/astronomers-bypass-visible-light-to-map-the-galaxys-structure/

 

[greenlantern]

Do you think there is consensus on the diameter? The mass? The number of stars in it?


There is much uncertainty about the physical feature of the milkyway.

 

[JeffRyan]

Science probably can. People and current observations probably can't.