Astronomy Research

Ancient Milky Way Merger

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August 19, 2026 • 164 views
Original source: NASA

This artist’s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows definitive ...

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