Would you travel back in time to witness the birth of the galaxy? 🌌
A remarkable discovery has just added another layer to our quest to piece together our galaxy's history in unprecedented detail.
To make this discovery, astronomers Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix from the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy combined data from the European Space Agency's , which is an ambitious endeavor that aims to create a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, with measurements of the stars’ chemical compositions compiled by China’s Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope .
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