Tag Archive for 'Thin disk'

Rotational motion of young (blue) and old (red) stars similar to the Sun (orange). Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt / SSC / Caltech.

Milky Way’s Thin Disk Formed Less Than One Billion Years from Big Bang, New Study Suggests

Aug 1, 2024 by News Staff

Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found a large number of metal-poor stars older than 13 billion years on orbits similar to that of...

This image shows the Milky Way-like galaxy UGC 10738. Image credit: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD / PanSTARRS.

Milky Way Galaxy Evolved Gradually, Astronomers Say

May 25, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed UGC 10738, a nearby, edge-on Milky Way-like galaxy,...