New stars found in the Milky Way were born outside of it – Armenian Reporter

This new star cluster has been named Nyx, for the Greek goddess of the night. They are within the vicinity of our sun’s location in the galaxy and extend about 6,000 light-years above and below the plane of the Milky Way galaxy in the event that you were to look at it from the side.The cluster of 250 stars are rotating with the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where most of the galaxy’s stars are located. But the Nyx stars may also be moving toward the center of the galaxy.“The two possible explanations here are that they’re the remnants of a

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