Monday, February 25, 2008

The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was

Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues. . .

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