Tuesday, 4. November 2003
Topic: Space - on November 4, 2003 at 11:20:15 PM CET
Milky Way welcomes its closest galactic neighbor by eating it
An international team of astronomers has found a previously unknown galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way.
Called the Canis Major dwarf galaxy after the constellation in which it lies, the star grouping is about 25,000 light-years away from our Solar System.
The new galaxy is shown in red ¬> bbc ¬> newscientist
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