Gclusters :: Link Item "lk42"

Release 11.12 ("Hergest Ridge")

Gclusters :: Link Item "lk42"

Link ID: lk42

Cluster NGC 5466

Name A River of Stars Streaming Across the Northern Sky
Description Astronomers have discovered a narrow stream of stars extending at least 45 degrees across the northern sky. The stream is about 76,000 light-years distant from Earth and forms a giant arc over the disk of the Milky Way galaxy...
Added on 2006-03-20
URL http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12811.html

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Link ID: lk42
Cluster	NGC 5466
Name	A River of Stars Streaming Across the Northern Sky
Description	Astronomers have discovered a narrow stream of stars extending at least 45 degrees across the northern sky. The stream is about 76,000 light-years distant from Earth and forms a giant arc over the disk of the Milky Way galaxy...
Added on	2006-03-20
URL	http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12811.html