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DescriptionExposing the Milky Way's "X".jpg	English: To reveal the X shape in the Milky Way's central bulge, researchers took WISE observations and subtracted a model of how stars would be distributed in a symmetrical bulge.
Date	19 July 2016
Source	https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/x-marks-the-spot-for-milky-way-formation
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Lang

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