Scientists venture through galaxy using new three-dimensional map
Their researchPrzemek Mroz, a member of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, said:"Our three-dimensional map of the Milky Way is the first map that is based on direct distances to thousands of individual objects, as distant as the expected boundary of the Galactic disk."Our map shows that the Milky Way disk is not flat, it is warped and twisted far away from the Galactic centre.
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