[Busywhiskers]

That explains a lot....

[VanDeKoik]

“Most depictions of our galaxy show it as being rather flat”

Because they are just quick illustration for survey-level reference books.

I’m sure most still dont even depict it as a proper barred-spiral and still show it as a pinwheel.

[steveo]

I can see my house I think.

[Jamestown1630]

Looks elegant, to me; kinda like a bird in flight.

[zeestephen]

Looks a lot like my collection of 33 rpm LP records from the 1960s!

This is a really interesting discovery.

Thanks for posting.

[Telepathic Intruder]

That’s it, I’m moving to Andromeda.

[Viking2002]

But is it Chicago style, or thin crust?

[sparklite2]

Okay. But you don’t see a lot of green-edged galaxies.

[hal ogen]

The existence of LIB lunatics proves that our galaxy is “warped”.

[Paladin2]

There’s no shortage of warpage on Erf alone...

[Rebelbase]

What level math would be used to graph that image? Some university prof is gonna use that as a test question because it’s too good to pass up.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Give hem five years and they will figure out where they made their math mistakes !

[NohSpinZone]

But global warming is a settled science for certain, right?

[null and void]

I’ve been thinking about Hubble’s future, and also about the abandoned TAU Project. TAU stood for Thousands of Astronomical Units. It was intended as a way to get a telescope up above the galactic plane, and over the dust in that plane to get a direct optical view of the center of the galaxy.

See where I’m going with this?

We have a perfectly good (indeed, OUTSTANDING!) telescope already in space. A few modifications, remove the solar panels, replace them with deep space SNAP generators. Add an ion drive rocket, a bigger data transceiver, upgraded gyros, and a few other odds and sods. Either fully gimbal mount, or yoke mount it to orient the telescope to roughly the galactic plane and very slowly spin the entire assembly like a bottle so that the telescope itself periodically pans the entire galaxy (daily, weekly, monthly?).

Visualize this as the telescope being the top bar of a ‘T’ (or tau) with the enhanced data link, ion engine, and such forming the stem of the ‘T’.

At a very modest 0.01g acceleration, it would be 10,000 AU above the galactic plane in 5 1/2 years.

We’d have clear photos, clear OPTICAL photos of the galactic core. We’d have millions of images of our local neighborhood, and a very long baseline for exactly calibrating distances to stars in our own galaxy.

We’d be able to actually see the other arms of our galaxy! Right now we’re stuck down in the smog, and like a mid 70s Angelino, we can’t even see the local mountains! (except they had occasional clear days!)

[noiseman]

”The team, who describe our galaxy as being less a flat disc and more a “wobbly, uncooked pizza crust...

No wonder life is such a bumpy ride.

[central_va]

Interesting but useless knowledge.

[Hot Tabasco]

the Milky Way shows our galaxy is warped

Wow, that explains everything.......

[faithhopecharity]

The galaxy is warped and so is the earth. Fits

[right way right]

Ooh pretty.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

It’s all Trump’s fault!