First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way

Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 09:30 in Astronomy & Space

For almost 20 years astrophysicists have been trying to recreate the formation of spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way realistically. Now astrophysicists and astronomers present the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy. The new results show that there had to be stars on the outer edge of the Milky Way.

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