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Published in United States of America - Social interactions and entertainment - 29 - 03 Feb 21 00:01

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i hooope you are ready for some star travel
put your seat belts on and enjoy
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ï»¿i saw lots of fighting over something flat on all chat so i believe i found it
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The Milky Way Is (Mostly) Flaï»¿t

Our galaxy is, on average, a hundred thousand light-years across but only a thousand light-years thick. Within this flattened (though somewhat warped) disc, the sun and its planets are embedded in a curving arm of gas and dust, putting the solar system about 26,000 light-years away from the galaxyâ€™s turbulent core. A bulge of dust and stars swaddles the galactic center, looking like a dollop of whipped cream plopped on both sides of a pancake.

Its Warped

ï»¿For starters, the Milky way is a disk about 120,000 light years across with a central bulge that has a diameter of 12,000 light years. The disk is farm from perfectly flat though as can be seen in the picture below. in
fact, it is warped in shape, a fact which astronomers attribute to the out galaxys two neighbors - the Large and Small Magellanic clouds.

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ï»¿These two dwarf galaxies - which are part of our Local Group of galaxies and maybe orbiting the Milky Way --- are believed to have been pulling on the dark matter in our galaxy like in a game of galactic tug-of-war. The
tugging creates a sort of oscillating frequency that pulls on the galaxys hydrogen gas, of which the Milky way has lots of.

Andromeda galaxy will eventually collide with the Milky Way

ï»¿The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will eventually collide into each other, but it wont happen for a very long time. While it was previously though that it would happen 3,75 billion years from now, newly
conducted research from ESAs Gaia mission estimates the collision will take place in 4,5 billion years. And we may not get hit as hard as previously though. New research also suggest that it wont be a full force collision and rather a tidal interaction which means that no planets or stars will collide with each other.

Â There is a supermassive BLACK HOLE at the heart of our Galaxy

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ï»¿Â The Galaxy Is an Island in a Stream of Stars

The Milky Way eats galaxies that come too close. Over the years, scientists studying the galaxyâ€™s fringe have detected some two dozen faint streamers of stars that are the remnants of galaxies past. These ghostly stellar rivers formed when the Milky Wayâ€™s more powerful gravity ripped
apart smaller galaxies, leaving behind glittering strands of leftovers. At the meeting, the Dark Energy Survey team announced that it had detected 11more of these streamers,some of which have been given
Aboriginal names.

The Galactic Center Is Blowing Hot Air

The Milky Way is blowing massive bubbles of extremely hot gas and energetic particles. Stretching far above and below the galactic plane, these so-called Fermi bubbles balloon straight out of the galaxyâ€™s center, fueled by a wind blowing at two million miles an hour. Unknown until 2010, itâ€™s not entirely clear why the bubbles exist, but scientists think they could be linked to the frenzy of star death and formation in the region around Sagittarius A*.

Gas Clouds Are Fleeing the Galaxy

Observed recently with the Green Bank Telescope, more than a hundred hydrogen gas clouds are zooming away from the galaxyâ€™s core at 738,000 miles an hour. Scientists studying the deserting swarm say the clouds can act as tracers for the powerful processes that produce the giant Fermi bubbles.