Gaia Sausage (English, name)
expansion: Gaia Sausage
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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 ten billion years ago, with the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, composing mostly Milky Way halo stars.
Forms: