The Gaia spacecraft discovers that parts of the Milky Way are much older than previously thought - Herald of Fashion

Data from more than 1.8 billion stars was used to create this map of the entire sky. Shows the total brightness and color of stars observed by the

This surprising result comes from an analysis performed by Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix, from the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany. They took brightness and positional da… [+6386 chars]

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