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Milky Way Eating its Neighbours – Australian Researchers AAP CANBERRA—A team of Australian researchers has discovered that the Milky Way galaxy has been eating its neighbours. Dr Stefan Keller and researchers from the Australian National University have found that a large band of stars at the edge of the galaxy were ripped from the nearby smaller Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. The finding is documented in the latest issue of the Astrophysical Journal. "The Sagittarius dwarf is a cosmic lightweight weighing 10,000 times less than our Milky Way," Dr Keller told AAP.
(Article continues below) "It has ventured too close to our galaxy and is now getting stretched out and slowly torn apart, a bit like spaghetti being wound round a fork."
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