Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gaia sausage

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English

Syllables: ga-ia sausage
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A stellar population within the Milky Way Galaxy that forms a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space, which is thought to originate from a galaxy merger ten billion years ago, with the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, composing mostly Milky Way halo stars.

Etymology

From Gaia + sausage. From being discovered by the Gaia Mission, a European Space Agency space telescope that maps the stars of the Milky Way, and forming a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space.

Phrases

Gaia-Enceladus

Frequently Paired Words

Gaia Gaia-Enceladus sausage

Synonyms

Gaia-Enceladus Sausage Sausage Galaxy Population

Questions

What does gaia sausage mean?: A stellar population within the Milky Way Galaxy that forms a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space, which is thought to originate from a galaxy merger ten billion years ago, with the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, composing mostly Milky Way halo stars.
Where does gaia sausage come from?: From Gaia + sausage. From being discovered by the Gaia Mission, a European Space Agency space telescope that maps the stars of the Milky Way, and forming a sausage-shaped plot in velocity-space.

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