CobraCommander@quokk.au to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 14 hours agoAstronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Wayskyandtelescope.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up176arrow-down1external-linkAstronomers Find the Edge of the Milky Wayskyandtelescope.orgCobraCommander@quokk.au to World News@quokk.auEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareplz1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 hours agoThat’s wild. Finding the edge by finding an inversion in age of stars. I read that just trying to figure out how they can tell how old a star is in the first place.
minus-squareforks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 hours agoOne of the ways they used in this study was isochrone fitting, where you compare the evolution of stars in a cluster to figure out their age
That’s wild. Finding the edge by finding an inversion in age of stars. I read that just trying to figure out how they can tell how old a star is in the first place.
One of the ways they used in this study was isochrone fitting, where you compare the evolution of stars in a cluster to figure out their age