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‘Family Tree’ of The Milky Way Reveals The Fate of The Mysterious Kraken Galaxy – ScienceAlert
The Milky Way has collided and merged with multiple other galaxies over its long lifespan, but piecing together its history has been a painstaking task.
The Milky Way has collided and merged with multiple other galaxies over its long lifespan, but piecing together its history has been a painstaking task.
A new analysis of dense star clusters orbiting the Milky Way has now given us the most complete galactic merger history yet. And in those data is a previously unknown merger event that took place 11 billion years ago, and completely altered our galaxy’s shape. Astronomers have named that galaxy – subsumed by the Milky Way – the Kraken.
The clusters…
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