The Milky Way is More Clumpy than Astronomers Thought

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This illustration shows the Milky Way, our home galaxy. Recent maps of its gas disk revealed that our Galaxy is more puffy-looking and flocculent than we thought. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars. In the process, they’ve also discovered that our galaxy’s structure is more complex than everyone thought, complete with tufty-looking “flocculent” gas clouds.

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