Complex, ringlike filament of stars that wraps around the Milky Way three times
The Milky Way galaxy.
The Monoceros Ring(monoceros: Greek for 'unicorn') is a long, complex, ring of stars that wraps around the Milky Way three times. This is proposed to consist of a stellar stream torn from the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy by tidal forces as part of the process of merging with the Milky Way over a period of billions of years, although this view has long been disputed.[1] The ring contains 100 million solar masses and is 200,000 light years long.[2]
The stream of stars was first reported in 2002 by astronomers conducting the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In the course of investigating this ring of stars, and a closely spaced group of globular clusters similar to those associated with the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, they discovered the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy.[3]
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The MonocerosRing (monoceros: Greek for 'unicorn') is a long, complex, ring of stars that wraps around the Milky Way three times. This is proposed to...
the Cygnus arm. Outside of the major spiral arms is the MonocerosRing (or Outer Ring), a ring of gas and stars torn from other galaxies billions of years...
forming a complex ringlike structure, sometimes referred to as the MonocerosRing, which wraps around the Milky Way three times, The stream of stars was...
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the Magellanic Clouds due to their interaction with the Milky Way MonocerosRing, a ring of stars around the Milky Way that is proposed to consist of a stellar...
most of the metal-rich part of the galactic halo. Field of Streams MonocerosRing Omega Centauri M32p, large galaxy merged into Andromeda Galaxy, responsible...
largest galaxies List of nearest galaxies List of polar-ring galaxies List of spiral galaxies List of ring galaxies List of quasars Excluding the Sun. Using...
orbited around the Milky Way. The Virgo Stellar Stream also resembles the MonocerosRing, found in 2002, which has similarly been attributed to the Canis Major...
Bibcode:2006ApJ...643L..17G. doi:10.1086/505111. ISSN 0004-637X. S2CID 8561289. "Rings around the galaxy". Astronomy. 1 June 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2019. Grillmair...
trails, and persisting existence. Also appearing in the Field is the MonocerosRing, which was discovered before the Field. Stellar stream List of stellar...
currently orbiting in the Milky Way halo. It may be associated with the MonocerosRing—a long tidal stream of stars that could have been formed from a disrupted...
2015). "Foraging ecology of ringed seals (Pusa hispida), beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) and narwhals (Monodon monoceros) in the Canadian High Arctic...
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P. (April 1986). "The Large System of Molecular Clouds in Orion and Monoceros". Astrophysical Journal. 303: 375. Bibcode:1986ApJ...303..375M. doi:10...
constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. Being a new variable star, it was designated V838 Monocerotis, the 838th variable star of Monoceros. The initial...
a planetary nebula near the celestial equator in the constellation of Monoceros, less than a degree to the ESE of Delta Monocerotis. It is informally...
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P. (2005). "A uniform CO survey of the molecular clouds in Orion and Monoceros". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 430 (2): 523–539. arXiv:astro-ph/0411089...
named after John Russell Hind. Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261) is in Monoceros, named after Edwin Hubble. Jones-Emberson 1 is a planetary nebula in Lynx...
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