Milky Way’s Edge Discovered
An international team of astrophysicists from Durham University in the UK has made an important discovery with regard to the diameter of Milky Way, the galaxy that houses our solar system.
Milky Way’s Edge
- It has been known for long that Milky Way has a brighter part which is a pancake-shaped disk of stars that includes the sun. Beyond this stellar disk, there exists a disc of gas. A halo of dark matter envelopes both the disks and stretches far beyond them. But it becomes hard to measure the edge as the dark matter emits no light.
- In the current research, ....
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