When it comes to dining, the Milky Way prefers to eat in.
Two clumps of stars (gray regions)
found by the Sloan survey in the
constellations Virgo and Cetus lie
in the Milky Way’s halo. Green
triangles indicate the area of sky
that Sloan has so far examined.
The blue elongated ring is the disk
of the Milky Way; the circle at the
ring’s center is the galaxy’s core.
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