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Is There a Difference Between Stars at the Center of the Milky Way and Those at its Edge?

-- Deepanshu Gurjar | January 22, 2021

Question:

Is there a difference between the stars that are at the center of the galaxy and the stars that are towards the edge of the galaxy

-- Deepanshu Gurjar

Answer:

In fact, the individual properties of stars in our galaxy and other galaxies are pretty well understood and found to be quite consistent independent of where one finds them in a given galaxy. That said, there are variations in the populations of different types of stars within galaxies. These variations in the numbers of different star types can be driven by the amount of star formation that occurs in different parts of a galaxy, for example.

-- Jeff Mangum

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