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Old 22-February-2008, 10:19 AM
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We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses," Professor Gaensler said.
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It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought.
http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=2163
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Besides, putting it under Space Exploration instead of Astronomy might be a little too optimistic.
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