Rainbow Pictures Of Milky Way Show Off Galaxy’s Structure

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A colorful view of the Milky Way based on a new 3-D structure created by astronomers. “Due to our position within the disk it is difficult to identify the detailed structure of the inner galaxy,” the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics said in a statement. Credit: MPE

Thanks to a new analysis of pictures obtained by a telescope in Chile, astronomers are gaining a better understanding of how the Milky Way formed and how our home galaxy has changed over the years.

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