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Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars. In the process, they’ve also discovered that our galaxy’s structure is more complex than everyone thought, complete with tufty-looking “flocculent” gas clouds.

University of Alabama’s Sukanya Chakrabarti and MSU astronomer Peter Craig came up with the process of mapping hydrogen gas in the Milky Way’s outer disk by determining distances to very young stars in…

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