A Twisted Tale of our Galaxy

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-216&cid+release2011-216 … a press release from NASA on the discovery by the Herschel Space Observatory that the Milky Way is not quite like how it was thought to be – and neither is the centre of the galaxy quite where it is supposed to be. An abstract and pdf version of the Astrophysical Journal Letters study is online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5486 and more information can be found at www.nasa.gov/herschel and www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Herschel/index.html