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Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way

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Astronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Way

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World News@quokk.auEnglish · 2 months ago

Astronomers have located the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, showing that it extends 40,000 light-years out from the center.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/1066124

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One of the ways they used in this study was isochrone fitting, where you compare the evolution of stars in a cluster to figure out their age

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