Did you know? ๐ŸŒŒโœจ ๐Ÿ”„ About a hundred years ago, astronomers discovered that the Milky Wayโ€™s stars rotate around its centre. ๐ŸŒ€ Since the 1950s, we've known that the Milky Way's disc is warped. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ In 2020 the Gaia Space Telescope showed that this distorted disc wobbles like a spinning top. ๐ŸŒŠ And recently scientists have uncovered an enormous wave moving through the galaxy, influencing stars across tens of thousands of light-years and extending through much of the Milky Wayโ€™s outer disc! Scien
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Did you know? ๐ŸŒŒโœจ ๐Ÿ”„ About a hundred years ago, astronomers discovered that the Milky Wayโ€™s stars rotate around its centre. ๐ŸŒ€ Since the 1950s, we've known that the Milky Way's disc is warped. ๐Ÿ˜ตโ€๐Ÿ’ซ In 2020 the Gaia Space Telescope showed that this distorted disc wobbles like a spinning top. ๐ŸŒŠ And recently scientists have uncovered an enormous wave moving through the galaxy, influencing stars across tens of thousands of light-years and extending through much of the Milky Wayโ€™s outer disc! Scien
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