A short historical outline of the subject is given, commencing with Glydén's discovery in 1871 of the galactic rotation effect in stellar proper motions, and dealing finally with recent research ...
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The majority of stars are located in the thin disk of the Milky Way, where our solar system is. These stars follow an organized rotation around the galactic center. The Sun is nearly five billion ...
However, REBELS-25 seems to be surprisingly orderly. Its structure and rotation are similar to our own Milky Way, which is unexpected for such an early galaxy. “According to our understanding of ...
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...