Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing
For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like. After all, we sit in the midst of it and can't step outside for a bird's eye view....
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Just send a probe 500,000 light years up, take some pictures, and transmit the results back.
I think we'll see interferometry across the EM spectrum revealing a lot more in the future. <br><br>Although the "stereovision" idea is not new, it is new technologies that will make the most of it.<br><br>
Very interesting article.<br>The way I understand it though, the Norma and Sagittarius arms aren't exactly <i>missing</i>, <br>they're merely <i>minor</i> arms, rather than <i>major</i> arms.<br>Much like poor old Pluto, which is still a planet,<br>but now considered a <i>dwarf</i> planet.<br>Linton
