Meanings
- astronomyA 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.
Synonyms: Gaia-Enceladus Sausage, Sausage Galaxy Population
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA 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.
Origin
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.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Gaia Sausage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gaia%20Sausage
“Gaia Sausage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gaia%20Sausage. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Gaia Sausage,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gaia%20Sausage.
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