Astronomers have excavated a galactic tomb –a stunning picture of our home galaxy’s successive mergers with neighboring galaxies. Recent discoveries by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) revealed the “archaeological” record embedded in hundreds of thousands of stars that unveiled the assembly history and evolution of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Avi Shporer, Research Scientist, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. A Google Scholar, Avi was formerly a NASA Sagan Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His motto, not surprisingly, is a quote from Carl Sagan: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”