The Milky Way galaxy is warped, according to new 3D map

Conventional wisdom has long held that the Milky Way was more or less a flat disk of stars and gas, with a bulge in the middle. But now astronomers from Macquarie University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have created a more accurate 3D map of the galaxy and found that it's more warped and twisted than previously thought.

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Category: Space

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• Astronomy
• Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Galaxy
• Gravity
• Macquarie University
• Stars

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2TwkoJL