Uncovering the birthplaces of stars in the Milky Way
Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 09:31
in Astronomy & Space
An international team of scientists led by Ivan Minchev of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has found a way to recover the birth places of stars in our Galaxy. This is one of the major goals in the field of Galactic Archaeology, whose aim is to reconstruct the formation history of the Milky Way.