State police, officials address public about barracks consolidation. Representatives from the Pennsylvania state police, Gov. Tom Wolfâs office and other public officials attended a public hearing on Thursday night at the Philipsburg-Osceola Area Middle School to address plans to consolidate the Philipsburg and Rockview state police barracks. Philipsburg.
A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars.Bars are found in approximately two-thirds of all spiral galaxies. Bars generally affect both the motions of stars and interstellar gas within spiral galaxies and can affect spiral arms as well. barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars.
The Large Magellanic Cloud. The Milky Way has a number of satellite galaxies, but the biggest one is the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is about 163,000 light-years away and around 1/100th the size of the Milky Way. Unlike our spiral galaxy, this one lacks a clean spiral shape. Some scientists think that is because the Milky Way and other galaxies are pulling and warping it. In terms of distance, there are two contenders for closest satellite galaxy. One group of stars is small enough that astronomers consider it a âdwarf galaxy.â