New Tool Makes Star Speed Measurements Twice as Accurate
Scientists created a better way to clean up data from a major space survey, making it easier to track how stars move across our galaxy.
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Scientists have spent years gathering these millions of spectra, and this update turns that raw effort into a high-quality tool. Future researchers will likely use this corrected catalog to trace the paths of stars more accurately as they move in their giant orbits around the center of the Milky Way.
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