Milky Way Galaxy, are made of two populations of stars that are distinct in their physical properties as well as their locations. He applied the termPopulation Ito the stars thatconstitutethe spiral arms of Andromeda and to most of the stars that are visible in the Milky Way system in the ...
Milky Way Galaxy, large spiral system consisting of several hundred billionstars, one of which is theSun. It takes its name from the Milky Way, the irregularluminousband of stars and gas clouds that stretches across the sky as seen fromEarth. Although Earth lies well within the Milky Way Ga...
The Gaia parallaxes have been used to characterise the spatial structure of star-forming regions and molecular clouds by producing 3D maps of the dust content of the Milky Way disc (e.g., [190,191,192,193]). In particular, the 1-pc resolution dust map of the Solar neighbourhood (∼...