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20 November 2017

How the Milky Way’s middle grew a peanut-shaped bulge

Model points to motion of the stars in the galactic disc.

Milky Way, seen edge-on. — Seen edge on, the Milky Way’s middle sports a double bump. ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt

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A prominent model of how the Milky Way developed its central bulge has found support from the chemical profile of the Galaxy’s stars.

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Nature 551, 417 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-07277-7

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