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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 so-called thin disk of our Milky Way and follow an organized rotation ...
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Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...