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Cosmic detectives investigate the origins of Milky Way material

By studying light from hundreds of thousands of stars in the Milky Way, scientists have revealed where the pieces that make up our galaxy came from. 

In a new study, scientists broke the light coming from 600,000 stars into spectra that determine the stars’ chemical composition. In doing this, they were able to reveal which groups of stars are at home in the Milky Way and which are interlopers with other galactic origins. 

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