Spirals, Figure 8's And Peanut Shells: Go Home Milky Way, You're Drunk

A few months ago astronomers created a new 3-D map of stars at the center of our Galaxy which cleared showed the bulge at its core. Previous explanations suggested that the stars that form the bulge are in banana-like orbits, but a paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the stars probably move in peanut-shell or figure of eight-shaped orbits instead. read more

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