Galactic Bar
No, it's not the subject of a sci-fi story, or the result of the search for drunken intelligent life, which is what I thought of when I saw the headline: "Study Details Bar at Center of Milky Way." Rather, it turns out that the Milky Way has a more unique shape than we thought. Maybe you ought to just read the article. As you can see, there is a 27,000 light-year long bar of stars across the center of the Milky Way, as shown in this artist rendition from the University of Wisconsin website:
Freaky, huh? At this point I haven't seen any ideas as to why it's there, but I wonder where it's pointing, don't you?
Freaky, huh? At this point I haven't seen any ideas as to why it's there, but I wonder where it's pointing, don't you?
