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The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is currently in the process of being consumed by the Milky Way and is expected to pass through it within the next 100 million years. The Sagittarius Stream is a stream of stars in polar orbit around the Milky Way leeched from the Sagittarius Dwarf.
24 lis 2021 · Traditionally these dwarf galaxies have been thought of as satellites in orbit around the Milky Way for many billions of years. Now, however, new data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft have shown that the majority of the dwarf galaxies are passing the Milky Way for the first time.
25 kwi 2018 · A 3D view of the orbits of four globular clusters (blue) and three dwarf galaxies (red) in motion around our Milky Way Galaxy, based on data from the second release of ESA's Gaia...
1 mar 2014 · Small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way may have arrived via dark matter superhighways stretching across the universe
6 cze 2024 · The new Gaia finding reveals that the wrinkles we see in the Milky Way were likely caused by a dwarf galaxy colliding with the Milky Way around 2.7 billion years ago – in other words, a large portion of the Milky Way only joined us within the last few billion years.
10 mar 2015 · Astronomers have discovered a ‘treasure trove’ of rare dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way. The discoveries could hold the key to understanding dark matter, the mysterious substance which holds our galaxy together.
3 lip 2024 · Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown pair of potential satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. The location of these dwarf galaxies suggests that hundreds of other unknown...
