Waspie_Dwarf Posted September 23, 2017 #1 Share Posted September 23, 2017 Is our galaxy normal? The SAGA Survey is studying Milky Way siblings to find out. Quote Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has been a jumping-off point to our understanding of galaxies throughout the universe. And though our picture of that home galaxy has evolved over time as astronomers have developed better ways to catalog and map its contents, we’ve largely believed the Milky Way was a “typical” example of a spiral galaxy. Now, astronomers are taking steps to determine whether that's really true. New data from the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey is reshaping our picture of the Milky Way by studying galaxies like it. Read More: Astronomy.com 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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