Ancient Milky Way Merger

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  • Stephanie Wilson
    Nasa Astronaut
    • Jul 2009
    • 2530

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    Ancient Milky Way Merger

    About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist’s concept portrays that collision. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters.

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