Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
It's the perfect meeting of old and new. Astronomers have combined recent data from ESA's Gaia mission with a simple analysis technique from the 18th century to discover a massive star cluster that had previously escaped detection. Subsequent investigations are helping to reveal the star-forming history of our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
For more about this story see: How do you find a star cluster? Easy, simply count the stars at http://sci.esa.int/gaia/how-to-find-a-star-cluster
It's the perfect meeting of old and new. Astronomers have combined recent data from ESA's Gaia mission with a simple analysis technique from the 18th century to discover a massive star cluster that had previously escaped detection. Subsequent investigations are helping to reveal the star-forming history of our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
For more about this story see: How do you find a star cluster? Easy, simply count the stars at http://sci.esa.int/gaia/how-to-find-a-star-cluster
