{"id":234684,"date":"2026-04-06T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/dozens-of-hidden-star-streams-found-in-the-outskirts-of-our-milky-way-galaxy"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:05:28","slug":"dozens-of-hidden-star-streams-found-in-the-outskirts-of-our-milky-way-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/dozens-of-hidden-star-streams-found-in-the-outskirts-of-our-milky-way-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of hidden star streams found in the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dozens-of-hidden-star-streams-found-in-the-outskirts-of-our-milky-way-galaxy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To find them, Chen developed a computer algorithm called StarStream, which searches for streams using a physics-based model rather than relying on visual patterns alone, according to the study. The team then applied the method to Gaia data, which from 2014 to 2025 mapped the positions and motions of billions of stars in the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out that it\u2019s a lot easier to find things when you have a theoretical expectation of what you\u2019re looking for when you have a simple phenomenological picture,\u201d Gnedin said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The results also revealed that many streams do not match the classic expectation of thin, well-aligned trails. Instead, the study reports that some of the newfound streams are shorter, wider or even misaligned with their parent clusters\u2019 orbits \u2014 suggesting earlier searches may have missed them by focusing only on the most obvious structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To find them, Chen developed a computer algorithm called StarStream, which searches for streams using a physics-based model rather than relying on visual patterns alone, according to the study. The team then applied the method to Gaia data, which from 2014 to 2025 mapped the positions and motions of billions of stars in the Milky [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}