The spiral arm only contributes a small portion of the galaxy's mass. The visible arm is really just a wave of hydroden being compressed to form very bright, very short-lived stars. Most of the mass is in the spheroid halo.
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there is some evidence of very large interstellar currents and also something that was pre-dicted instead of post-dicted“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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