New trove of Gaia data will uncloak the Milky Way's dark past and future - Space.com

"You can reconstruct where groups of stars came from and which building block brought them into the Milky Way."

A space telescope that observes stars in the Milky Way as they appear today reveals what happened to the galaxy when it was just a couple of billion years old, and an upcoming data release will allow… [+10185 chars]

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