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Revealing the Milky Way’s Warp: How Cepheid Stars Map Our Dark Matter Halo

A research team developed a novel "motion picture" method to measure the precession rate of the Milky Way's warp using Cepheid variable stars. Their findings suggest the Milky Way's dark matter halo is slightly oblate, shaping our understanding of galactic dynamics and the structure of the universe.

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