绚烂星空——永不能解开的结？

摘自 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-094

Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing

June 03, 2008

St. Louis, Mo. -- 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.

Now, new images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing that it has just two major arms of stars instead of the four it was previously thought to possess.

遨游星空，更多图片看这里：

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

其中的TIF文件虽大，但速度很快，当然解析度可能更高吧

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