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OSU Astronomers Now Have Proof of How the Milky Way Formed
Nature Astronomy published the findings on May 17, 2021.“Our evidence suggests that when the merger occurred, the Milky Way had already formed a large population of its own stars,” said Fiorenzo Vincenzo, co-author of the study and a fellow in The Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. ADVERTISEMENT Most of the stars in the Milky Way appeared in the thick disk in the middle of the galaxy. On the other hand, most stars formed in the outer halo of the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy.Josefina Montalban, with the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham in the U.K.
