A new study suggests the Milky Way doesn’t need a makeover: It’s already just about perfect.
ON ANOTHER ARM A newly discovered star-forming arm at the fringes of the Milky Way may be a vast, outer extension of the arm Scutum-Centaurus. The finding suggests that the Milky Way has a rare symmetry, with one half of the galaxy the mirror image of the other half.
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