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Here's John Bachelor.

In and around the constellation Sagittarius, a discovery thanks to the Gaia spacecraft,

a discovery that takes us to the very beginning of our very lucky and very beautiful Milky Way.

Welcome, Dr. Ken Coswell, the author of The Alchemy of the Heavens,

another distinguished astronomy books, but right now reporting in science news,

new information of this discovery in and around the constellation Sagittarius.

Can a very good evening to you?

What has the Max Planck Institute found?

And what does it mean? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Well, this is a very exciting work that I report about at Science News.

And it really focuses on one of the themes of my book, The Alchemy of the Heavens.

How did this great galaxy that we now inhabit and that gave rise to the sun and the earthen to wonderful beings like you and me?

How did it all start?

And what these scientists have found with the help of data from the Gaia spacecraft

is the proto-galaxy that made the Milky Way.

It's the original nucleus of the Milky Way.

It's the kernel around which our great galaxy later grew.

And so now that we've identified these stars and there's 18,000 of them that have been studied that have been identified in this new study,

we can observe them further for additional details about the Milky Way's birth and its earliest evolution.

So it's an exciting piece of work and I think we're going to be seeing a lot more observations of these stars in the future.

The age is so called if time can be used here.

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