Two new stars were discovered in the far zone of the Milky Way known as the galactic halo. This finding could radically change the way scientists think that galaxies arise.
These two stars known as red giants ULAS J0744 +25, located at 775 thousand light years from Earth, and ULAS J0015 +01, which is 900 thousand light years, according to Gizmodo published the portal.
Both are located in the galactic halo of the Milky Way, a region that is poorly understood by astronomers, and it was believed, was formed by interstellar gas, older stars such as brown dwarfs and dark matter.
But with this discovery, made by a team of astronomers led by John Bochanski, this perception could change.
The question for researchers is how these objects, so far from the Milky Way, are associated with it.
So far seven stars were known to over 400 thousand light years and who do not belong, apparently, to any galaxy.
His observation is complicated because large telescopes are designed to show distant galaxies, or nearby objects, but not isolated stars in the space between galaxies.
If astronomers find more stars how are you, how scientists thought that galaxies arise, could change.
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