New Measurements of the Milky Way Galaxy

NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday | January 9, 2009| | Copyright

IRA FLATOW
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday
01-09-2009
New Measurements of the Milky Way Galaxy

Host: IRA FLATOW
Time 2:00-3:00 PM

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Up next - new measurements of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, which make it out to be a lot heftier than we once thought. It's been commonly accepted in the world of astronomy that the Andromeda Galaxy was much bigger than ours, of course. Now, it turns out that our Milky Way is king-size. Joining me now to talk more about it is my guest, Mark Reid, senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He joins us ...

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