An artist impression of the Milky Way, showing the thick and thin discs.
(Credit: NASA/JPL Caltech/R.Hurt/SSC)
Data gathered by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery.
Royal Astronomical Society-(ENEWSPF)- Star-quakes recorded by NASA’s Kepler space telescope have helped answer a long-standing question about the age of the “thick disc” of the Milky Way.
In a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of 38 scientists led by researchers from Australia’s ARC Centre of . . .
