The disc of the Milky Way is bigger than we thought
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Representación artística “A Roadmap to the Milky Way” de R Hurt
SSC-Caltech
NASA
Description
The coloured region is the previously known Galactic disk. The present work has extended its limits much farther away: there is a probability 99.7% or 95.4% respectively that there are disk stars in the regions outside the dashed/dotted circles. Yellow dot is the position of the Sun. Background Milky Way image from “A Roadmap to the Milky Way". Credit: Artistic representation by R. Hurt, SSC-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech.