A mysterious break in one of the arms of the Milky Way Galaxy looks similar to a splinter sticking out of a piece of wood. The break is located in the Sagittarius arm with hundreds of thousands of young stars and star-forming gas clouds sticking out of it at an unusual perpendicular angle. The “splinter”. Read more »
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This illustration is currently our best approximation of what the Milky Way looks like. Clarity: NASA / JPL-Caltech That's it An unusual "fracture" was
The Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way spirals out of our galaxy s center, forming a swooping highway of gas that spans tens of thousands of light-years.
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