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Astronomers Find Shell Structures in Milky Way Galaxy for First Time | Astronomy – Sci-News.com

A team of astronomers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Flatiron Institute, and Queen’s University has spotted two shells in…

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A team of astronomers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Flatiron Institute, and Queens University has spotted two shells in the Virgo Overdensity region and two shells in the Hercules Aquila Cloud region of the Milky Way. These structures were produced about 3 billion years ago, when a dwarf galaxy plunged into the Milky Ways center and was ripped apart by the gravitational forces.
Stars identified by Donlon II et al. have formed shell structures in the aftermath…

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