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this is very surprising, considering that you can actually see it with your own eyes at night and it is not spherical at all. There are also countless panorami
by enriquto 7y ago
this is very surprising, considering that you can actually see it with your own eyes at night and it is not spherical at all. There are also countless panoramic photos of the whole thing, which always look more or less the same, and there is no way it can be spherical. See for example https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0932a/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0932a/
- irrational 7y agoOP might be thinking of the recent finding that the galaxy is not flat. https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/the-galaxy-is-not-flat-researchers-show-in-new-3d-model-of-the-milky-way/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/01/the-galaxy-is-not-flat-res...
- ianburrell 7y agoOr maybe the older discovery that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. And may not have a pronounced central bulge.