Pheonix Stream and Red Giant stars (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Pheonix Stream and Red Giant stars

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An artist's impression of the thin stream of stars torn from the Phoenix globular cluster, wrapping around our Milky Way (left). For the study, the astronomers targeted bright Red Giant stars, to measure the chemical composition of the disrupted Phoenix globular cluster (right).

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Illustration is courtesy of James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) and the S5 Collaboration.

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