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October 30, 2013

The Galactic Mosh Pit
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2013
Astronomers have discovered that our Galaxy wobbles. An international team of astronomers around Mary Williams from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) detected and examined this phenomenon with the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a survey of almost half a million stars around the Sun. In addition to the regular Galactic rotation the scientists found the Milky Way moving perpendicular to the Galactic plane. It is common knowledge that our Galaxy is permanently in motion. Being ... read more

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