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Gaia Sausage
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Etymology
From en Gaia sausage. From being discovered by the en 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.
Proper noun
Gaia Sausage
en astronomy A stellar population within the en Milky Way Galaxy that forms a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space, which is thought to originate from a galaxy merger ten billion years ago, with the en Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, composing mostly Milky Way halo stars.
Synonyms
en Gaia-Enceladus Sausage Sausage Galaxy Population
Related terms
en Gaia sausage Gaia-Enceladus