Gaia Sausage
nameEtymology
From Gaia + sausage. From being discovered by the Gaia Mission, a European Space Agency space telescope that maps the stars of the Milky Way, and forming a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space.
Definitions
A stellar population within the Milky Way Galaxy that forms a sausage-shaped plot in…
A stellar population within the Milky Way Galaxy that forms a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space, which is thought to originate from a galaxy merger ten billion years ago, with the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, composing mostly Milky Way halo stars.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Gaia Sausage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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