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Astronomers Discover Dizzying Spin of the Milky Way Galaxy’s “Halo”
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Our Milky Way galaxy and its small companions are surrounded by a giant halo of million-degree gas (seen in blue in this artists' rendition) that is only visible to X-ray telescopes in space. University of Michigan astronomers discovered that this massive hot halo spins in the same direction as the Milky Way disk and at a comparable speed.
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Credit lineAstronomers Discover Dizzying Spin of the Milky Way Galaxy’s “Halo”. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000261.
