Researchers reveal a wobbly and flared Milky Way disk based on LAMOST-Gaia data

Researchers reveal a wobbly and flared Milky Way disk based on LAMOST-Gaia data

Space Daily

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Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 04, 2021

Astronomers, from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS and Nanjing University, revealed a wobbly and flared Milky Way disk based on LAMOST-Gaia data, which updates our understanding about the disk. The Milky Way is a typical disk galaxy. In the classical view of the Milky Way, the disk is symmetric and flat on t

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