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Gaia Sausage

Gaia Sausage proper noun: 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.

Proper noun

Gaia Sausage

  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.

Synonyms of Gaia Sausage

Origin of Gaia Sausage

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.

Questions about Gaia Sausage

What does Gaia Sausage mean?
Gaia Sausage means 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.
What part of speech is Gaia Sausage?
Gaia Sausage is a proper noun.

Words near Gaia Sausage in the dictionary

  1. gai-lon
  2. gai-lons
  3. Gaia
  4. Gaia Enceladus
  5. Gaia hypothesis
  6. Gaia Sausage
  7. Gaia-Enceladus
  8. Gaia-Enceladus Sausage
  9. Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus
  10. gaiaism
  11. Gaian

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