This particular «bone» is millions of times more massive than the sun and lies in the central plane of the galaxy's disk. (sciencemag.org)
Eventually a field that started out with a basically vertical orientation gets converted to a field that lies in the horizontal plane of the galaxy. (discovermagazine.com)
The Pelican lines up parallel to the plane of the galaxy, Kassim notes, whereas all other bands are perpendicular. (sciencemag.org)