Scientists Solve The 40-Year Mystery of a Giant Structure Towering Over The Milky Way
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Astrophysicists led by Kathryn Kreckel resolved a decades-long astronomical puzzle by determining that the Galactic center lobe is actually a closed loop of ionized gas 6,520 light-years away, not a giant eruption from the galaxy's core as previously believed.
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