Our galazy twice as big as previously believed

Sooooo you know the milky way galaxy? The one in which we reside not the chocolate bar.

Well a bunch of Australian astronomers at the University of Sydney showed a slew of astronomers up when they proved, after only a couple hours of internet-based research, that our home galaxy is a is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years thick it was previously believed to be (the width of our disc shaped galaxy remains constant, however, at 100,000 light years across).

Here’s the hilarious quote from team leader Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler from the University of Sydney news page:

“Some colleagues have come up to me and have said ‘That wrecks everything!’” says Professor Gaensler. “And others have said ‘Ah! Now everything fits together!’”