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Estructura del halo de la Vía Láctea (Ilustración del artista)
This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers have proposed that the Milky Way's halo is composed of two populations of stars. The age of the stars in the inner halo, according to measu...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2012
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2012-25-3051-image
This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers have proposed that the Milky Way's halo is composed of two populations of stars. The age of the stars in the inner halo, according to measurements by the Paranal Observatory, is 11.5 billion years old. The measurements suggest the inner-halo stars are younger than the outer-halo population, some of which could be 13.5 billion years old.
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NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)Detalles de la imagen
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| Object Name | Milky Way |
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