Shape Of The Milky Way Galaxy. Infrared images revealed that the milky way’s spiral structure is. Using infrared images from nasa's spitzer space telescope, scientists have discovered that the milky way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars.
In the map above, you can see that kapteyn represents the milky way as a flattened disk with a radius of approximately 8500 parsecs. Using infrared images from nasa's spitzer space telescope, scientists have discovered that the milky way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Tell me more about galaxies
