Posthuman Blues

New Look for the Milky Way

"Using the orbiting infrared telescope, the group of astronomers surveyed some 30 million stars in the plane of the galaxy in an effort to build a detailed portrait of the inner regions of the Milky Way. The task, according to Churchwell, is like trying to describe the boundaries of a forest from a vantage point deep within the woods: 'This is hard to do from within the galaxy.'"

I suspect there will be those who claim the Milky Way's apparently unique shape is evidence that it was designed by an omnipotent creator in order to allow humans to arise.