and star clusters scattered in their outskirts. In fact, the Gaia mission itself has revealed that our galaxy’s halo is full of debris from some massive dwarf galaxies—such as the Gaia ...

To make this possible, they observed the dead stars scattered around the galaxy and then tried to figure out when they were born. While they discovered a large amount of the dead stars still resid ...

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