Observations explore the nature of stellar stream Icarus
3D velocity space for the 622 chemically selected nearby stars color coded according to eccentricity. Icarus stars are highlighted as filled dots within the Icarus locus (solid line). Credit:arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.12581 Astronomers from Italy and Chile have investigated an accreted stellar stream named Icarus in the Milky Way’s disk. Results of the study, detailed … Read more