The Milky Way Broke Its Arm

The spiral of the Milky Way is not as smooth as we once thought because an arm not so far from home appears to be broken! And we may have discovered the answer to why a local asteroid puts on the appearance of a comet. Buy your Discovery and OAST1 pin before the end of August here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/scishow-pin-of-the-month-discovery-and-oast1-aug Hosted By: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet & Jason A Saslow! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/astronomers-find-a-break-in-one-of-the-milky-way-s-spiral-arms https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/07/aa41198-21/aa41198-21.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/fizzing-sodium-could-explain-asteroid-phaethon-s-cometlike-activity https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac0d02/pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedra_Azul_Milky_Way.jpg https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/faq/7/where-are-exoplanets/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13155 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-celebrates-the-legacy-of-the-spitzer-space-telescope https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/285/the-milky-way-galaxy/ https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/astronomers-find-a-break-in-one-of-the-milky-way-s-spiral-arms https://www.eso.org/public/usa/videos/eso1339a/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_of_the_Milky_Way_Galaxy_IV_–_Composite.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroid_3200_Phaethon_(1983_TB).gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_3200_Phaethon_orbit.gif https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/a-meteor-shower-shooting-across-the-sky-on-a-clear-starry-night-h0quf6cadkrng5cy4 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halleys_comet_black_background.png https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/slow-motion-big-meteor-on-black-background-bqxgeryfdkp2r93wy https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/fizzing-sodium-could-explain-asteroid-phaethon-s-cometlike-activity https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/meteor-asteroid-burning-in-atmosphere-production-quality-footage-in-4k-resolution-30-fps-h7img5eglk6106xns https://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/did-you-know


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