Science News Roundup: Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy; Musk's SpaceX eyes Florida for launch site for Mars rocket
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'Moving fast:' Musk's SpaceX eyes Florida for launch site for Mars rocket
Elon Musk's SpaceX is expanding its facilities in Florida to make room for the space company's forthcoming super heavy-lift launch vehicle dubbed Starship, according to a draft of the plans seen by Reuters on Friday. Starship, a 384-foot reusable two-stage rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty, is a central piece of Musk's interplanetary space travel ambitions as well as U.S. space agency NASA's goal to send humans to the moon again by 2024.
Astronomers find that Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy
Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars is not flat but dramatically warped and twisted in shape. The researchers on Thursday unveiled a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way - home to more than 100 billion stars including our sun - providing a comprehensive chart of its structure: a stellar disk comprised of four major spiral arms and a bar-shaped core region.
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