Mapping the Milky Way: Radio telescopes give clues to structure, history

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—Astronomers have discovered hundreds of previously-unknown sites of massive star formation in the Milky Way, including the most distant such objects yet found in our home Galaxy. Ongoing studies of these objects promise to give crucial clues about the structure and history of the Milky Way.

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