What Does the Milky Way Look Like?

In spite of much work, the overall spiral structure morphology of the Milky Way remains somewhat uncertain. In the last two decades, accurate distance measurements have provided us with an opportunity to solve this issue. Using the precise locations of very young objects, for the first time, we prop...

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Main Authors: Y. Xu, C. J. Hao, D. J. Liu, Z. H. Lin, S. B. Bian, L. G. Hou, J. J. Li, Y. J. Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc45c