[LibWhacker]

The massive new survey of stars reveals a definitive bar feature at the
centre of the Milky Way, some 27,000 light years in length (Artist's
impression: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R Hurt, SSC/Caltech)

[Shqipo]

I thought its chocolate covered center held caramel and nougat?

[guitfiddlist]

Let's call it the Milky Way Bar.

[SkyPilot]

Isn't God incredible.

[Unam Sanctam]

Is it like the bar in Star Wars?

[Buggman]

in other news, scientists have also found the Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Ah yes, one of my favorite candy bars!

[guitfiddlist]

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun...

[Brilliant]

The Star Wars bar, perhaps?

[mikrofon]

The Milky Way is not a perfect spiral galaxy but instead sports a long bar through its centre

Must be getting close to football season...

[xrp]

Fascinating.

[keithtoo]

[Sometimes A River]

Artist's impression

LOL I was thinking to myself "cool picture" until I read that.

[Covenantor]

hmmm...seems familiar

Hero's engine

Legendary characters used the power of mythology to fly through the heavens. About 100 BC a Greek inventor known as Hero of Alexandria came up with a new invention that depended more on the mechanical interaction of heat and water. He invented a rocket-like device called an aeolipile. It used steam for propulsion. Hero mounted a sphere on top of a water kettle. A fire below the kettle turned the water into steam, and the gas traveled through the pipes to the sphere. Two L-shaped tubes on opposite sides of the sphere allowed the gas to escape, and in doing so gave a thrust to the sphere that caused it to rotate.

[BILLNHILL MAKE ME ILL]

The Milky Way is not a perfect spiral galaxy but instead sports a long bar through its centre...

I'll take a Rolling Rock with a lime please...

[ClearBlueSky]

A bar! Fantastic. Wonder how the drinks are- bet the prices are terrible but there's lots of parking!
Stay away from Corellians and Wookiees- they cause fights wherever they go.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

It's where the old, red stars go to talk about the old days...

[don-o]

It's a very interesting thing. Maybe when the wise crack artists get it out of their system, someone who knows something might post.

Sometimes, I just hate this place.

[decal]

"Some spiral galaxies look like pinwheels, with their arms curving out from a central bulge, while others have a straight bar at their centres."

You can tell the galaxies with the straight bars - no ferns.

[RightWhale]

Although earth is not much as planets go, certainly not in the center of things, and the sun would not be noticeable at any great distance, our galaxy is fairly good size. Even better, it is a barred spiral. We might not be cosmopolitan out here, but we can see the city.

[NormsRevenge]

The Milky Way is not a perfect spiral galaxy but instead sports a long sports bar through its center..

A man can dream. :) BUMP