Pluto's gone, now for the Milky Way!

[snowyskiesau]

Seems an astronomer (http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14057-two-of-the-milky-ways-spiral-arms-may-be-demoted.html?feedId=online-news_rss20) is calling for a couple of the spiral arms of the Milky Way to be demoted, much the same as has been done with poor Pluto.

This is as a result of a scan by the Spitzer space telescope.
There's an article about a 5 gigapixel (http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2008-11/release.shtml) image taken by Spitzer - don;t get too excited though, it's infra red

[madtuna]

I like this statement... "Trying to create a picture of the Milky Way is about 40% hard science and 60% imagination,"

That 60% leaves a fair amount of room for amatuer astronomers to still make discoveries...plus use that imagination mentioned :)