Astrophysics, Science, Space

Star-quake Vibrations lead to New Estimate for Age of Milky Way

An artist impression of the Milky Way, showing the thick and thin discs.
An artist impression of the Milky Way, showing the thick and thin discs. (Credit: NASA/JPL Caltech/R.Hurt/SSC)

Data gathered by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery.

Royal Astronomical Society-(ENEWSPF)- Star-quakes recorded by NASA’s Kepler space telescope have helped answer a long-standing question about the age of the “thick disc” of the Milky Way.

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In a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of…

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