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Podcast: The World, the Universe and Us
Episode: Dead Planets Society: Giving the Milky Way More Arms
Description: Galaxies come in only a few shapes, which are all very round looking. You’ve got spirals and you’ve got blobs. Not content with this boring assortment, Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte want to shake things up a bit.First up they want to give our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, more arms. One, two… eight? As many as possible. But they don’t stop at “octogalaxy”. They also ponder on what it would take to defy the laws of physics and create a giraffe-shaped galaxy.Aided by Vivian U, an astronomer at UC Irvine, t...