The Milky Way's Halo of Stars Isn't The Neat Sphere Astronomers Expected It to Be
Science Alert,
Blame the Gaia Sausage.
Blame the Gaia Sausage.
I had to undertake a top secret mission on Friday which turned out to be much less exciting than I’d hoped, bbut at least it…
An unknown dwarf galaxy, dubbed ‘Sausage’ galaxy, smashed into our own Milky Way Galaxy around 8 to 10 billion years
Astronomers have found stars dating from a long-ago collision between the Milky Way and another galaxy. The crash helps to…