Our galaxy is flatter than a sheet of paper
In short: While the Milky Way spans 100,000 light-years across, it is remarkably thin. This video explores what lies beyond our galactic disk, from dense star clusters to one of the universe's emptiest regions.
Looking vertically out of the galactic plane reveals a transition into increasingly strange cosmic structures. The journey takes viewers past globular clusters and toward the Great Attractor, as well as an area identified as one of the emptiest regions ever discovered in space.
Beyond these landmarks, the video examines an invisible structure that may be responsible for holding our entire galaxy together. It highlights how the universe becomes increasingly alien the further we move away from the flat disk of our home galaxy.
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