Saturday, March 14, 2015

The Milky Way is 50% BIGGER than we thought

The Milky Way is 50% BIGGER than we thought | Daily Mail Online: "Next time someone asks you how wide the Milky Way is, you might want to rethink your answer of '100,000 light-years'.

Astronomers in New York have revised the size estimate for our galaxy (shown). They now say it is 50 per cent bigger in size at 150,000 light-years wide, not 100,000 light-years. This is based on re-examining a ring of stars in the so-called Monoceros Ring

Astronomers have discovered that a strange ring of distant stars may actually be part of our galaxy, making it 50 per cent bigger at 150,000 light-years wide."

No comments:

Post a Comment