Astronomers have discovered three new groups scattered in the Milky Way – Technology

Using data obtained from the Gaia telescope, astronomers discovered three new star clusters scattered in one of the sleeves of the Milky Way and in have identified the main features. According to N + 1, each group contains several hundred stars and their rays are between 15 and 20 light years.

The distributed groups are groups of stars that have little to do with the influence of gravitation. Similar groups are formed from a giant molecular cloud, so the stars they contain are almost the same age and chemical composition. To date, 1100 scattered star clusters have been discovered in our galaxy.

The researchers have now been able to detect three other similar clusters in the Milky Way sleeve, indicated by the Sagittarius-Killa sleeve. The groups were labeled UFMG 1, UFMG 2 and UFMG 3 and were discovered in the analysis of the Gaia Data Release 2 catalog created by the Gaia Space Telescope. The clusters are located approximately 4900 light years from Earth and contain at least several hundred almost metallic stars. Estimates indicate that age groups are between 0.1 and 1.4 billion years old.

New groups are located near the already known dispersed groups of NGC 5999, Majaess 166 and Teutsch 81 in the constellation Norm.

Scientists studied new data from the Chandra X-ray observatory and discovered a ring of X-ray light sources in a galaxy located 300 million light-years away from Earth.