{"title":"A stellar clock reveals the assembly history of the Milky Way","authors":"Timothy C. Beers","doi":"10.1038/d41586-022-00768-2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A brief stage in stellar evolution offers a precise means of dating stars in the Milky Way. The ages, compositions and motions of these stars all pinpoint the dynamical processes involved in the Galaxy’s formation. Galaxy formation reconstructed by dating subgiant stars.","PeriodicalId":18787,"journal":{"name":"Nature","volume":"603 7902","pages":"580-581"},"PeriodicalIF":48.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature","FirstCategoryId":"103","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00768-2","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A brief stage in stellar evolution offers a precise means of dating stars in the Milky Way. The ages, compositions and motions of these stars all pinpoint the dynamical processes involved in the Galaxy’s formation. Galaxy formation reconstructed by dating subgiant stars.
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