Clumps that survive to tell a tale

Sidney van den Bergh ()
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Sidney van den Bergh: the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, The National Research Council of Canada

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6757, 29-30

Abstract: The formation of the outer Milky Way is still something of a mystery. Evidence that a clump of stars discovered in the outer halo and the brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way are both remnants of satellite galaxies captured by our Galaxy, may provide an answer.

Date: 1999
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