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Showing posts with label star absorbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label star absorbs. Show all posts

Monday, October 29, 2012

Our galaxy caught for dinner: Milky Way star absorbs


Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the researchers found that the torrent of stars, which is supposed to symbolize the remains of ancient star clusters, slowly absorbed with you our own Milky Way galaxy.

A team of astronomers from Yale University led by Ana Bonaca, masters and lead author of the new study, had previously noted that the Milky Way has a tendency to absorb dwarf galaxies,