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stargazer-3
on Feb 1, 2022
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Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way...
Zoomed-in part in the center, "1400 light-years across the centre of the Galaxy." as a linked paper indicates. Milky Way is long, 105700 light years in diameter.
raattgift
on Feb 1, 2022
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Along these lines, why SARAO's MeerKAT radio telescope (
https://www.sarao.ac.za/science/meerkat/about-meerkat/
) is the observatory behind this discovery is that it has a good view of the galactic centre because of the orientation of the Earth and solar system within the galaxy :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Motion_of_Sun,_Earth...
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