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Kinematics beats dust: unveiling nested substructure in the perturbed outer disc of the Milky Way

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Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · View the paper (DOI)

An international team of astronomers has created a new map of the Milky Way's outer disc using data from the Gaia space mission. The findings reveal many previously unknown coherently rotating filamentary structures at the edge of the disc.

Coverage from 2 institutions

  • Unveiling substructures at the edge of the Galaxy
    • Article 1 University of Barcelona · Dec 14, 2021 · first to report
    • Article 2 Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe · Dec 17, 2021