The Milky Way is just an average spiral

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1997-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704216v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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It has been thought for many years that the Milky Way is an overly large spiral galaxy. Using Cephied distances to 17 spiral galaxies we calculate the true linear diameters of those galaxies. These diameters are then compared to that of the Milky Way which is found to be, at most, an averagely sized spiral galaxy. When compared to galaxies of approximately the same Hubble type ($2

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