read this the other day & thought it was neat: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reveals A New Milky Way Neighbor. yes! a small or dwarf galaxy (not ‘dwarf’ as in a galaxy of dwarfs, which would be oddly rad, but it’s rather just a small galaxy) found near the constellation Virgo.
At an estimated distance of 30,000 light years (10 kiloparsecs) from Earth, the structure lies well within the confines of the Milky Way Galaxy. However, it does not follow any of Milky Way’s three main components: a flattened disk of stars in which the sun resides, a bulge of stars at the center of the Galaxy and an extended, roughly spherical, stellar halo. Instead, the researchers believe that the most likely interpretation of the new structure is a dwarf galaxy that is merging into the Milky Way.
you can read more about the sloan digital sky survey, the project that made this discovery.
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