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1/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 1/2: The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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1/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 1/2: The local arm of the Milky Way and our Sun's place in it for now. Ken Croswell, The Lives of Stars.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2116185118

Inner Workings: Astronomers are redrawing our corner of the Milky Way
We live in a giant barred spiral galaxy. The Milky Way’s fast-spinning disk of stars and gas whips up spiral arms that spawn new suns, while a bar of mostly older stars cuts through its heart. From afar, our galaxy likely resembles a glowing cosmic hurricane.:

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This is CBS I on the World. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Dr. Ken Croswell, author of the

0:48.1

Alchemy of the Heavens searching for meaning in the Milky Way to take us to the Milky

0:53.4

Way. A galactic enterprise can as long admired as beautiful and he now writes in the proceedings

1:01.6

of the National Academy of Sciences. A revelation about the Milky Way, about our place in it,

1:08.9

our solar system, can a very good evening to you. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, but

1:14.5

to do some history, the revelations of spiral galaxy you date to the mid-19th century,

1:20.8

the whirlpool galaxy. That was sometime before we could perceive our own galaxy because

1:27.6

we're inside that spill of stars across the sky. What did the whirlpool galaxy teach us?

1:34.3

What does it mean to be a spiral galaxy? Good evening to you.

1:38.8

Good evening, John. The whirlpool galaxy is a stunning spiral galaxy. It's still one

1:43.9

of the most beautiful galaxies we know. There's a picture of a great picture from Hubble

1:49.3

that appears in my article in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. We discovered

1:54.6

a spiral structure in 1845, where I should say Lord Ross in Ireland was the first to make

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