Discovery of ancient stars on the stellar thin disk of the Milky Way
The Milky Way galaxy has a large halo, a central bulge and bar, a thick disk and a thin disk. Most stars are located in the ...
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10 Astonishing Things You Should Know About the Milky Way
The Milky Way galaxy is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers ... with a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* (pronounced “A-star”) at its core. The bar refers to the characteristic ...
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Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...