Jessica Huerta

July 19,2016
PHYS 1040
Jonathan Barnes
Journal #6
Title: How astronomers used Twitter to understand our galaxy
Date of Article: July 19,2016
Source: astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/07/how-scientists-used-twitter-to-understand-our-galaxy
Summary: This article starts off by explaining how an astronomer Tweeted about the galaxy
maps, which received a lot of attention because of the appearance of the Milky Way. A few of
people noticed that the stars in a bulge at the center of the galaxy were shaped as an X. Though
they had seen this before in 2011 and they saw it again in 2015, scientist want to know what is
the cause of this.
Opinion: This is interesting how not everything in the galaxy is round but there are flat objects
out there in space. I believe that scientist should do more research on why the stars are in a bulge
and why are they in a way to make it look like an X.