A group of researchers has recently identified an ancient component of the Milky Way, named the original galactic disk, or ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

"These ancient stars in the disk suggest that the formation of the ... us to increase the number of stars with high quality stellar parameters, a key step to lead our team to these new insights." ...

ABSTRACT.This review focuses on flat and superthin galaxies. These are edge-on bulgeless galaxies, which are composed of a simple, stellar disk. The properties of these simple disks are at the end of ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...

Given that NGC 300 lies in a relative isolation, it makes it an ideal candidate for studying its stellar halo without the influence of a nearby massive companion. Moreover, its disk is nearly face ...