Modern space exploration has witnessed great developments since its inception. Scientists, who provide more information about the universe we live in every year, discovered a ‘feather-like’ gas structure that connects the Milky Way Galaxy about three weeks ago. Another new finding about the galaxy we are in came from the European Space Agency today.
Thanks to the space observatory called ‘Gaia’, which the European Space Agency launched into orbit in 2013, it has managed to obtain important information in space exploration so far. Gaia, who was tasked with examining the depths of space from Earth’s orbit and making a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way Galaxy, discovered a mysterious formation in the depths of the galaxy.
This is the first time these interesting formations have been observed in such a dense state:
Chervin Laporte, an astronomer at the University of Barcelona, said that the source of this mysterious formation discovered; He states that most of the outward-opening arms of the galaxy are dense filaments of gas formed by colliding and merging over time. During its formation, the Milky Way came into contact with other galaxies and witnessed a great chaos. These ‘mysterious’ structures are thought to be ‘fossil formations’ left over from that period. Scientists, who liken these structures to ripples on the water surface, also offer another possibility.
The first possibility was that these formations were left over as a result of the collision of the Milky Way Galaxy with other planets, as we mentioned above. The other possibility is that due to the gravitational pull of the galaxies neighboring the Milky Way, their outstretched arms create a strange irregularity, somewhat ‘fluctuating’. However, what made this discovery special was that such a large amount of ‘unknown formations’ had not been encountered until now. Scientists are now preparing to conduct a study on which of these two scenarios is more likely.
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