Where is our solar system in the vast assemblage of celestial objects in this island Universe we call the Milky Way? To answer that question, we can begin with the beautiful configuration of stars we ...

Visualizations of well-known stellar streams in the Milky Way can be found here. Astronomers discovered that the spur and gap features of the GD-1 stellar stream cannot be easily attributed to the ...

one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way, known for its long, thin structure, and unusual spur and gap features. The team of researchers, led by Hai-Bo Yu at ...