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What does the center of the galaxy look like?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Orion Spur

The Milky Way has four arms. They start at this nuclear bulge and streak out, they swirl around the center. And we actually live on a spur that comes off of one of those arms. It's called the Orion Spur. But these arms have gas and dust in them so it's hard to see all the way through them.

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