![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 do 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 do](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/gallery/news/prensa1385_3178.jpg?itok=IucUvR0R)
A team of researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and at the National Astronomical Observatories of Beijing (NAOC) have published a paper which suggests that if we could travel at the speed of light it would take us 200,000 years to cross the disc of our Galaxy.
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