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The Milky Way galaxy may be a different shape than we thought
- warrenm 3y agoI always thought it was a trapezoidal prism
- simonblack 3y agoIn my youth, the Galaxy was considered to be shaped a bit like a loaf of bread; more or less elliptical, quite flattish and with rounded edges Sort of a bit like this: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkMJz7b-doO56lSQAMsE-TzAPHBoa023KhKA&usqp=CAU https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkMJz7... Then it was a spiral galaxy with several arms. Now its a two-armed spiral. One of these days we'll have the instruments which will be able to determine the truth of the matter, instead of conjecture.