Archives for: "November 2008"
2008/11/02
New Milky Way map reveals a complicated outer galaxy
The halo of stars that envelops the Milky Way galaxy is like a river delta criss-crossed by stellar streams large and small, according to new data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II). While the largest rivers of this delta have been mapped out ov… more »
Rivers of Stars Found in Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered nearly a dozen new stellar rivers—strings of moving stars—over the disk of the Milky Way.
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