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Admit it, How many people knew that the galaxy we live in ISN'T a spiral galaxy

It's a Barred-Spiral galaxy, fundamentally different in structure, and this has been known since 2005.





Share some other enormous facts of reality you were oblivious to until recently and help the less fortunate.

So does that mean that Macragge is somewhere else now?

I thought we can only guess because it's so massive that we can't go out far enough to take a look... something like that was a "nobody knows" on Qi a while back...

That pic lacks the Eye of Terror, so I doubt it's accuracy. How could the miss something a fundamental as a giant warp rift?

shrike wrote:I thought we can only guess because it's so massive that we can't go out far enough to take a look... something like that was a "nobody knows" on Qi a while back...

We can infer the distances of star using Various Methods and build a 3D model from that data. The quality of our model is constantly improving but the gross structure of our galaxy is beyond resonable doubt

Nevelon wrote:That pic lacks the Eye of Terror, so I doubt it's accuracy. How could the miss something a fundamental as a giant warp rift?

The eye of terror won't form until around 29,750AD, so it isn't a navigational hazard yet, watch out for the homeworlds of the kinky eldar though