The Gaia mission's analysis of millions of stars near the Sun has revealed that the Milky Way's galactic disk is not static but vibrates and twists like a sheet, caused by gravitational interactions with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy or Large Magellanic Cloud; as our solar system orbits the galactic center, our neighborhood rises and falls tens of parsecs to the rhythm of a tidal wave that still resonates throughout the galaxy.
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La increíble espiral fantasma en la Vía Láctea: el disco galáctico está vibrandoAdded:
It's going to blow your mind. In GA data, the speeds of millions of stars near the sun draw a ghostly spiral like a snail and reveal that the Milky Way's disk is vibrating and twisting like a sheet, because relatively recently the gravitational push of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy or the large Magellanic cloud shook it. So as we orbit the galactic center, our neighborhood rises and falls tens of parsexes to the rhythm of a tide that still resonates and leaves its undulating signature throughout the galaxy. Yeah.
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