English Explanatory Dictionary

Gaia Sausage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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.

Word forms

Gaia Sausage

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

Gaia-Enceladus Sausage Sausage Galaxy Population

Related words

Gaia Gaia-Enceladus sausage
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