The Phoenix stellar stream rose from the ashes of an ancient star cluster [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12371


Observations of an ancient stellar stream provide the first evidence of a vanished population of extremely metal-poor stellar clusters. Their remnants might reveal how the early assembly of the Milky Way proceeded.

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J. Kruijssen
Tue, 29 Sep 20
33/98

Comments: 3 pages, 1 figure; author’s original version of a News & Views article in Nature, commenting on Wan et al., Nature, 583, 768-770 (2020); for the published version (open access) please see this https URL