To sort out the development of the Milky Way through big data astronomy
Sorting out the evolution of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a challenge similar to mapping the human genome, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). ESA’s galaxy charter, Gaia, takes trillions of measurements of 2 billion of the brightest stars in the sky. Here we look at what it takes to remove these …
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