The findings offer new insights into the assembly history of our Galaxy, and are the part of the first wave of new observations from the Gaia-ESO survey, the ground-based extension to the Gaia space mission - launched by the European Space Agency at the end of last year - and the first large-scale survey conducted on one the world's largest telescopes: the 8-m VLT in Paranal, Chile.
- University of Cambridge Press Release
'Gaia-ESO data show Milky Way may have formed ‘inside-out’, and provide new insight into Galactic evolution’
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news
M. Bergemann and G. Gilmore - Süddeutsche Zeitung
‘Die doppelte Milchstraße’
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/zwei-scheiben-theorie
interview by C. Schrader - Chicago Reports
“Milky Way galaxy may have formed ‘inside-out”
http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=227171
interview, by L. Calderone - ESO press release
“Oldest Solar Twin Identified” http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1337/ - MPA Highlights
“Entfernungen in unsere Galaxie: wo sind die metall-armen Sterne?” - MPA Highlights
“Chemische Zusammensetzung alter, metallarmer Sterne wirft neue Fragen auf" - MPA Highlights
“Infrarot-Leuchtfeuer im Universum - Rote Überriesen und die chemische Zusammensetzung von Galaxien"