Purple Mountain Astronomers Update Picture of Milky Way taken from Above

The new image covers the spiral arm structure of molecular gas at about 2/3 azimuth, at a galactic core distance of about 8-26 thousand parsec, 1.5 times larger than in previous observations. The findings were published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Full story (in Chinese) via this link; read about Nanjing introduced as never before via this link.