2/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 2/2: 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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2/2: #Bestof2021: The fertile Milky Way: 2/2: 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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| 0:30.3 | This is CBS I in the World. I'm John Batsu with Dr. Ken Croswell. He is reporting for the |
| 0:40.8 | proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. New thinking about our beautiful spiral galaxy, |
| 0:47.8 | the Milky Way. Yes, it's true we're headed to Angiandromeda, which is also a beautiful |
| 0:52.7 | galaxy. We're going to merge, but right now the revelations about our galaxy include |
| 0:58.7 | our place in it, the Sun. We're going around. It's going to take to earn 30 million years, |
| 1:04.0 | but in the meantime we're part of a local arm, which is constantly being upgraded. |
| 1:08.7 | Ken, how is it that they now know the local arm extends? When do you report 26,000 light |
| 1:14.0 | years? How did that, how did this discovery get made? And what does it mean? |
| 1:19.1 | Well, it's a good deal longer than a lot of people had thought. 26,000 light years is |
| 1:24.4 | approximately the same distance between the Sun and the Glock Accenture. It's a substantial |
| 1:29.6 | distance, and it could be longer than that. 26,000 is really just the minimum. In terms |
| 1:35.3 | of how we learned that, it was these major parallaxes that established that certain stellar |
| 1:41.8 | nursery, certain young stars that had been thought to be in the Perseus arm, which is |
| 1:45.9 | the next arm outward, actually were closer and were part of the local arm instead. And |
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