Evidence from APOGEE for the presence of a major building block of the halo buried in the inner Galaxy

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A small satellite galaxy, named Heracles, collided with our Milky Way Galaxy about 10 billion years ago and its remnants…

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Astronomers find ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep inside the Milky Way

ZME Science, 24 Nov 2020

The 10 billion-year-old fossil was named Heracles after the Greek Hero who was made immortal when the Milky Way was born.

Astronomers discover new ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep within the Milky Way

Science Bulletin, 23 Nov 2020

Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE…

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