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Orions Arm: not a spur
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09-30-2016, 01:33 AM
The Orion spur appears to be more of a complete arm.
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09-30-2016, 01:55 AM (This post was last modified: 09-30-2016, 01:56 AM by stevebowers.)
Looks to me like there is both a local arm and a smaller spur between us and the Sagittarius arm, defined by these new maser sources (blue circles).
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