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The Milky Way is not a uniform swarm of stars. Decomposing the Milky Way into components lets astronomers reconstruct galaxy assembly, chemical enrichment, spiral structure, disk heating, and dark-matter distribution.
The Milky Way is not a uniform swarm of stars. Decomposing the Milky Way into components lets astronomers reconstruct galaxy assembly, chemical enrichment, spiral structure, disk heating, and dark-matter distribution.
The Milky Way is not a uniform swarm of stars. Decomposing the Milky Way into components lets astronomers reconstruct galaxy assembly, chemical enrichment, spiral structure, disk heating, and dark-matter distribution.
The Milky Way is not a uniform swarm of stars. Decomposing the Milky Way into components lets astronomers reconstruct galaxy assembly, chemical enrichment, spiral structure, disk heating, and dark-matter distribution.
The Milky Way is not a uniform swarm of stars. Decomposing the Milky Way into components lets astronomers reconstruct galaxy assembly, chemical enrichment, spiral structure, disk heating, and dark-matter distribution.
At the dynamical center of the Milky Way lies Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source associated with a supermassive black hole of roughly four million solar masses. The Galactic center provides the nearest laboratory for testing supermassive black-hole gravity, stellar dynamics, accretion, and the relation between black holes and galactic nuclei.
At the dynamical center of the Milky Way lies Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source associated with a supermassive black hole of roughly four million solar masses. The Galactic center provides the nearest laboratory for testing supermassive black-hole gravity, stellar dynamics, accretion, and the relation between black holes and galactic nuclei.
At the dynamical center of the Milky Way lies Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source associated with a supermassive black hole of roughly four million solar masses. The Galactic center provides the nearest laboratory for testing supermassive black-hole gravity, stellar dynamics, accretion, and the relation between black holes and galactic nuclei.
At the dynamical center of the Milky Way lies Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source associated with a supermassive black hole of roughly four million solar masses. The Galactic center provides the nearest laboratory for testing supermassive black-hole gravity, stellar dynamics, accretion, and the relation between black holes and galactic nuclei.
At the dynamical center of the Milky Way lies Sagittarius A*, a compact radio source associated with a supermassive black hole of roughly four million solar masses. The Galactic center provides the nearest laboratory for testing supermassive black-hole gravity, stellar dynamics, accretion, and the relation between black holes and galactic nuclei.
The rotation of the Milky Way shows that visible stars and gas do not account for all of its gravitational mass. Milky Way dynamics constrain dark-matter halo shape and density, determine the Galaxy's total mass, and set the gravitational environment for stellar streams, satellites, and Solar-System motion through the Galaxy.
The rotation of the Milky Way shows that visible stars and gas do not account for all of its gravitational mass. Milky Way dynamics constrain dark-matter halo shape and density, determine the Galaxy's total mass, and set the gravitational environment for stellar streams, satellites, and Solar-System motion through the Galaxy.
The rotation of the Milky Way shows that visible stars and gas do not account for all of its gravitational mass. Milky Way dynamics constrain dark-matter halo shape and density, determine the Galaxy's total mass, and set the gravitational environment for stellar streams, satellites, and Solar-System motion through the Galaxy.
The rotation of the Milky Way shows that visible stars and gas do not account for all of its gravitational mass. Milky Way dynamics constrain dark-matter halo shape and density, determine the Galaxy's total mass, and set the gravitational environment for stellar streams, satellites, and Solar-System motion through the Galaxy.
The rotation of the Milky Way shows that visible stars and gas do not account for all of its gravitational mass. Milky Way dynamics constrain dark-matter halo shape and density, determine the Galaxy's total mass, and set the gravitational environment for stellar streams, satellites, and Solar-System motion through the Galaxy.
Star clusters provide controlled stellar populations whose members formed at roughly the same time and from similar material. Clusters calibrate stellar evolution, measure Galactic ages, trace chemical history, and test stellar dynamics in dense systems.
Star clusters provide controlled stellar populations whose members formed at roughly the same time and from similar material. Clusters calibrate stellar evolution, measure Galactic ages, trace chemical history, and test stellar dynamics in dense systems.
Star clusters provide controlled stellar populations whose members formed at roughly the same time and from similar material. Clusters calibrate stellar evolution, measure Galactic ages, trace chemical history, and test stellar dynamics in dense systems.
Star clusters provide controlled stellar populations whose members formed at roughly the same time and from similar material. Clusters calibrate stellar evolution, measure Galactic ages, trace chemical history, and test stellar dynamics in dense systems.
Star clusters provide controlled stellar populations whose members formed at roughly the same time and from similar material. Clusters calibrate stellar evolution, measure Galactic ages, trace chemical history, and test stellar dynamics in dense systems.
Stellar streams are elongated structures of stars torn from globular clusters or dwarf galaxies by the Milky Way's tidal field. Galactic archaeology reconstructs the Milky Way's merger history, maps the dark-matter halo, and identifies chemically distinct building blocks from which the Galaxy assembled.
Stellar streams are elongated structures of stars torn from globular clusters or dwarf galaxies by the Milky Way's tidal field. Galactic archaeology reconstructs the Milky Way's merger history, maps the dark-matter halo, and identifies chemically distinct building blocks from which the Galaxy assembled.
Stellar streams are elongated structures of stars torn from globular clusters or dwarf galaxies by the Milky Way's tidal field. Galactic archaeology reconstructs the Milky Way's merger history, maps the dark-matter halo, and identifies chemically distinct building blocks from which the Galaxy assembled.
Stellar streams are elongated structures of stars torn from globular clusters or dwarf galaxies by the Milky Way's tidal field. Galactic archaeology reconstructs the Milky Way's merger history, maps the dark-matter halo, and identifies chemically distinct building blocks from which the Galaxy assembled.
Stellar streams are elongated structures of stars torn from globular clusters or dwarf galaxies by the Milky Way's tidal field. Galactic archaeology reconstructs the Milky Way's merger history, maps the dark-matter halo, and identifies chemically distinct building blocks from which the Galaxy assembled.