Astronomers have located the edge of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk, showing that it extends 40,000 light-years out from the center.
  • Bananskal@nord.pubEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m not sure I follow you here, but just to be sure, I’m talking about this image here:

    Was that also what you were looking at?

    • tb_@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah. And the oldest stars overall are indeed in the galactic centre.

      But the specific bit you quoted I read as “of the old stars on the outside, the outermost are the oldest”.

      • Bananskal@nord.pubEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ah okay, I get you. Reading it back again it does indeed seem to be that this is what they mean.

        Thanks. 😁