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The local spiral structure of the Milky Way

The nature of the spiral structure of the Milky Way has long been debated. Only in the last decade have astronomers been able to accurately measure distances to a substantial number of high-mass star-forming regions, the classic tracers of spiral structure in galaxies. We report distance measurement...

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Autores principales: Xu, Ye, Reid, Mark, Dame, Thomas, Menten, Karl, Sakai, Nobuyuki, Li, Jingjing, Brunthaler, Andreas, Moscadelli, Luca, Zhang, Bo, Zheng, Xingwu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27704048
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600878