University of Pennsylvania: New Stellar Stream, Born Outside the Milky Way, Discovered With Machine Learning
July 18, 2020
July 18, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 18 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news:
Researchers have discovered a new cluster of stars in the Milky Way disk, the first evidence of this type of merger with another dwarf galaxy. Named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of night, the discovery of this new stellar stream was made possible by machine learning algorithms and simulations of data from the Gaia space observatory. The finding, published in Nature Astronomy, is the resu . . .
Researchers have discovered a new cluster of stars in the Milky Way disk, the first evidence of this type of merger with another dwarf galaxy. Named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of night, the discovery of this new stellar stream was made possible by machine learning algorithms and simulations of data from the Gaia space observatory. The finding, published in Nature Astronomy, is the resu . . .