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Saturday, December 3, 2011

The Milky Way is 'still hungry' - how our galaxy keeps devouring its smaller neighbours

The Milky Way is 'still hungry' - how our galaxy keeps devouring its smaller neighbours: "The Milky Way bar was always advertised as the chocolate bar that you could eat without filling you up.

But the galaxy after which it's named - our own - has an insatiable appetite.

It's still devouring neighbouring dwarf galaxies at a frightening rate - and astronomers recently captured two 'streams' of stars 'torn off' a nearby dwarf galaxy into our own."

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