Bar at Milky Way's heart revealed

* 18:03 16 August 2005
* NewScientist.com news service
* Maggie McKee



The Milky Way is not a perfect spiral galaxy but instead sports a long
bar through its centre, according to new infrared observations from
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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