The European Space Agency's Gaia telescope continues to create one of the most extensive 3D maps of the Milky Way.
, tasked with cataloging the roughly 1.7 billion stars in our galaxy, has so far found many of the approximately 7,000 star clusters discovered to date.
The new paper, published in the preprint server arXiv, outlines how the latest data release has uncovered 1,600 additional star clusters.The researchers used an AI learning model to sift through the data. They specifically targeted latitudes above 20 degrees that previous researchers hadn't targeted.
They also looked as far as they could in the Gaia data to distances of about 5 kiloparsecs, or more than 16,000 light years. The team also decided to visually confirm each and every one of the 1,179 new star clusters.The new research brings astronomers closer to confirming theories about the number of star clusters in the Milky Way. Though 16,000 light-years is a massive distance, it's a relatively small distance in the Milky Way, which spans about 100,000 light-years.
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