X Marks the Spot: Twitter-Born Collaboration Illuminates Milky Way Structure

Monday, July 25, 2016 - 15:41 in Astronomy & Space

A massive X-shaped formation of stars sitting in the central bulge of our galaxy, the Milky Way, was recently discovered through a research effort largely driven by Twitter.

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