Some old favorites (Eagle, Omega, Triffid, Lagoon) live in a weird spiral arm

[Deane Clark]

“Scientists have spotted a previously unrecognized feature of our Milky Way galaxy: A contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds is sticking out of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms like a splinter poking out from a plank of wood. Stretching some 3,000 light-years, this is the first major structure identified with an orientation so dramatically different than the arm's.”

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-astronome ... -arms.html

[Sureshks]

That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing Deane.

Suresh