Milky Way’s Inner Ring is Nearly 6 Billion Years Old, Astronomers Say

Our Milky Way Galaxy hosts an internal ring-like construction that’s wealthy in metals (components heavier than hydrogen and helium) and intermediately aged, in response to an evaluation of stellar information from the APOGEE Survey. APOGEE is a large-scale, stellar spectroscopic survey carried out at near-infrared wavelengths. As against optical gentle, infrared gentle can extra simply […]