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Dark Matter; Galaxies; Astrophysics; Astronomy; Solar Flare; Sun; Big Bang; Nebulae

Finding explanation for Milky Way’s warp

The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and stars. But if you could zoom out and take an edge-on photo, it actually has a distinctive warp -- as if you tried to twist and bend a vinyl LP. Though scientists…