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Cannibal Galaxy Could Show How These Huge Structures Grow

4 Jul , 2014 by Elizabeth Howell

There’s a hungry galaxy on the loose about 62 million light-years away from us. Astronomers just revealed that the Umbrella Galaxy (NGC 4651) is busy gobbling up another galaxy, similar to how our own Milky Way Galaxy is eating the smaller Sagittarius. “This is important because our whole concept about what galaxies are and how […]

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