Stellar Desert With No Young Stars At The Center Of Milky Way, New Study Finds

The center of the Milky Way contains an abundance of older stars as compared to the relatively younger ones but a new study shows that the number of the younger ones may be even lesser than was previously anticipated.

In comparison to the sun — that is about 4.6 billion years old — these young stars, or Cepheids, are only between 10 to 300 million years old. To understand how the galaxy was formed and how it evolved over time, analyzing the distribution of stars is important and the Cepheids prove to be helpful in this.