Gaia Sausage

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A stellar population within the Milky Way Galaxy that forms a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space, which is thought to originate from a galaxy merger 10 billion years ago, with the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, composing mostly Milky Way halo stars.

Related

Similar words

• Gaia-Enceladus Sausage
• Sausage Galaxy Population

Origin

• Gaia + sausage. From being discovered by the Gaia Mission, a European Space Agency space telescope that maps the stars of the Milky Way, and forming a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space.