This image shows warped shape of Milky Way disk outer parts.
<p>Blue grid shows shape of disk in space while viewed from angle 15° off its plane, which matches with xy plane. Yellow dot marks position of the Sun.
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Red contours on xy plane show deviation disk off its plane in kiloparsecs.
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