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    Gaia reveals that most Milky Way Companion Galaxies are Newcomers to our Corner of Space

    November 26, 2021, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way

    Data from ESA’s Gaia mission is re-writing the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. What had traditionally been thought of as satellite galaxies to the Milky Way are now revealed to be mostly newcomers to our galactic environment.

    A dwarf galaxy is a collection of between thousand and several billion stars. For decades it has been widely believed that the dwarf galaxies that surround the Milky Way are satellites, meaning that they are caught in orbit around our galaxy, and have been our constant companions for many billions of years. Now the motions of these dwarf galaxies have been computed with unprecedented precision thanks to data from Gaia’s early third data release and the results are surprising.

    François Hammer, Observatoire de Paris—Un...

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    Fastest Stars in the Milky Way are ‘Runaways’ from another tiny galaxy

    July 6, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Fastest Stars in the Milky Way are '#Runaways' from another tiny galaxy

    Fastest Stars in the Milky Way are ‘Runaways’ from another tiny galaxy

     
    The fastest-moving stars in our galaxy – which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way – are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own. The researchers, from University of Cambridge, used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and computer simulations to demonstrate that these stellar sprinters originated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy in orbit around the Milky Way.
     
    These fast-moving stars, known as hypervelocity stars, were able to escape their original home when the explosion of one star in a binary system caused the other to fly off with such speed that it was able to escape the gravity of the LMC and get absorbed into the Milky Way...
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