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Extraterrestrial Life

Course blog for ET Life course, Spring 08

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Milky Way twice as big as previously thought?

Saw this today on the University of Sydney's website - a team of astrophysicists used data from the internet to discover that the Milky Way is 12,000 light years thick, not 6,000 light years thick (as previously thought).

http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=2163
Posted by Aaron at 12:25 PM

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