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Two Major and Two Minor Arms

The Milky Way Map has been revised!

Norma and Sagittarius have been demoted to minor arms.

For the
via National Geographic News on 6/2/08
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A new view of our home galaxy shows what its structure would look like to distant observers, including the demotion of two of it swirling arms to minor status.

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