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.
Milky Way. The Milky Way was once considered an ordinary spiral galaxy. Astronomers first began to suspect that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy in the 1990s. Their suspicions were confirmed by Spitzer Space Telescope observations in 2005, which showed that the Milky Way's central bar is larger than was previously suspected.