Milky Way shaken… and stirred

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Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2014

A team of scientists headed by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has found a way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to a new level of detail. The investigation of a data set of stars near the sun was decisive for the now published results.

The astronomers studied how the vertical motions of stars – in the direction per
Published at Tue, 28 JAN 2014 16:46:21 AEST