New stars found in the Milky Way were born outside of it

[Judi Lynn]

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 2:11 AM ET, Sun July 12, 2020 (CNN)

Astronomers have found a new stream of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they likely didn't originate there, according to a new study.

This new star cluster has been named Nyx, for the Greek goddess of the night. They are within the vicinity of our sun's location in the galaxy and extend about 6,000 light-years above and below the plane of the Milky Way galaxy if you were to view it from the side.

The study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy.

The cluster of 250 stars are rotating with the Milky Way's galactic disk, where most of the galaxy's stars are located. But the Nyx stars are also moving toward the center of the galaxy.

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