New Milky Way Map Created; Shows Fewer Main Arms: Astronomers unveiled today what they are calling the best map ever produced of the Milky Way galaxy. The new view shows our spiral galaxy as it would look face-on to a very distant observer. [National Geographic]
Fat, eccentric star puzzles astronomers: A fat, dense, eccentric star has left astronomers scratching their heads as to how it could have formed. [Telegraph]
Pluto Gets Respect: Dwarf Planets to Be Called ‘Plutoids’: Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being stripped of planetary status by astronomers two years ago. From now on all similar distant bodies in the solar system will be called “plutoids.” [Discovery]
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