Thread  RSS Largest age map of the Milky Way reveals how our galaxy grew up



# 9418 9 years ago on Sun, Jan 10 2016 at 8:13 pm

Check this out. Have you heard?

Proud parents chart the growth of their children, but astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have taken on a bigger task: charting the growth of our own Milky Way.

Read the rest here: user link on phys.org

Interesting.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

-- Ernest Hemingway

# 9430 9 years ago on Mon, Jan 11 2016 at 12:12 am

If our galaxy is truly all grown up, Earth didn't get the memo raspberry

"Dangerous toys are fun, but you could get hurt!"


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