3D image of MilkyWay shows a deformed galaxy.

Well I thought this was an interesting article, I was going to try and use the more official sites as my sources, since the one I'm using does'nt have articles seperated to well, but all the official releases were in Japanese.

Just one more discovery in the realm of the universe.


Comments, Opinions?



NOTE:
I don't know why everything is in bold, I did'nt do that.

[edit on 3/29/2006 by iori_komei]

MOD EDIT: Making an attempt to get rid of the bold. That is odd... Third edit did the trick. No idea what caused that. Putting the end bold tag (/b) at the end of your external quote did the trick.

[edit on 3/29/2006 by cmdrkeenkid]

really hard to tell with that picture since it is just looking for hydrogen atoms and moluclues. Wasn't there an earlier discovery that it was actaully warped and looked more then a sumbrao with the edges being bent twoards the core?

Yup. Here's the Space.com article on it...

Milky Way's Warp Explained

Well,

I was afraid it would have a notch in the side. And there it is, this is mindboggling.
Here's why:

Their visualisation of the galaxy: www.nro.nao.ac.jp...

STS-75 pic:



David Sereda might have a point after all?

(except for mistaking a camera zoom for "high velocity turns that would flatten you like a pankake")