This animation shows the model of the tidally shredded Sagittarius dwarf galaxy wrapping around a 3-D representation of the Milky Way disk (flattened blue spiral). The yellow dot represents the position of the Sun. The associated movie shows a flyaround view of this system.
credit: David R. Law, UCLA
source: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~drlaw/Sgr/
This is the first model I've seen where the Stellar Stream looks like a big pretzel. It almost looks like it's splitting off to form another loop too.
SuperZekethefreak 6 months ago