Milky Way melded with smaller galaxy in long-ago cosmic crash
The Milky Way, home to our sun and billions of other stars, merged with another smaller galaxy in a colossal cosmic collision roughly 10 billion years ago, scientists said on Monday based on data from the Gaia space observatory. [Source]
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