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XMM-Newton helps revise distance to outer spiral arms
- gus_massa 3mo agoI really really really want a graph with error bars. I want the positions of the stars with error bars. Last year I looked for a while, but failed. :( The raw data is important for specialist, an I'm not planing to do an astrophysics course. The artistic impression is perhaps nice for laymen (but I think they deserve better). I want my error bars! So, looking at the research article, I found this graph https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa57431-25/F7.html https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/06/aa57431-... Note that is rotated like 180° from the ilustration in the press article. I love it. I love error bars. I love that the error bars are huge and that somewhat explains why it's difficult to get the right distance and the best current guess must be updated.