"It turns out that it's a lot easier to find things when you have a theoretical expectation of what you're looking for when you have a simple phenomenological picture.
Astronomers have discovered dozens of faint ribbons of stars in the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission.
The findings were made using a new algorithm that more than quadruples the number of known candidates of these so-called "stellar streams. " This discovery could offer fresh clues about how our galaxy evolved and how its dark matter is distributed, the study's researchers say.
