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Astronomers Find Stream of Early Universe Stars, Torn Apart by Our Own Galaxy – ScienceAlert
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars at the distant edges of the galaxy: a strange stellar breed so unlike any we’ve seen before, they may very well be the last of their kind.
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious stream of ancient stars at the distant edges of the galaxy: a strange stellar breed so unlike any we’ve seen before, they may very well be the last of their kind.
This unusual collection of stars called the ‘Phoenix stream’, after the Phoenix constellation in which they are visible is what’s known as a stellar stream: an elongated chain of stars that used to exist in a spherical form, known as a globular cluster.
Such clusters can be torn asunder by a …
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