The far side of the Milky Way https://www.mpg.de/11549037/mapping-spiral-structure-milky-way?c=12135602
Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have directly measured the distance to a star-forming region on the opposite side of our Milky Way Galaxy from the Sun, using the Very Long Baseline Array. Their achievement reaches deep into the Milky Way’s terra incognita and nearly doubles the previous record for distance measurement within our Galaxy.
In the framework of the Bar and Spiral Structure Legacy (BeSSeL) Survey, it is now