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New Research Affirms That Milky Way Has Four Spiral Arms

An image showing the distribution of massive stars in the new study. Our location within the Galaxy is circled in black. (Background image by Robert Hurt of the Spitzer Science Center.)
An image showing the distribution of massive stars in the new study. Our location within the Galaxy is circled in black. (Background image by Robert Hurt of the Spitzer Science Center.)

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