How the Milky Way might appear through "dark matter glasses." The blue
points represent stars, the green points show the location of the
hydrogen gas layer, and the red points show the extensive, almost
spherical, distribution of dark matter. The yellow dot indicates the
location of the Sun. It is the changing thickness of the gas layer with
position in the Milky Way that has enabled Drs Robert Olling and Michael
Merrifield of Southampton University to measure the shape of the dark
matter distribution.
These results were presented at the National Astronomy
Meeting at Southampton University (April 7 - 11, 1997).
How the Milky Way might appear through "dark matter glasses." The blue
points represent stars, the green points show the location of the
hydrogen gas layer, and the red points show the extensive, almost
spherical, distribution of dark matter. The yellow dot indicates the
location of the Sun. It is the changing thickness of the gas layer with
position in the Milky Way that has enabled Drs Robert Olling and Michael
Merrifield of Southampton University to measure the shape of the dark
matter distribution.
