Tag: galaxy collision
Milky Way: Gaia would have revealed fossil spiral arms!
Astronomers continue to analyze data collected by the Gaia astrometric mission concerning nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way. They revealed curious structures that could be the fossil remains…
Magellan’s gas stream is 5 times closer to Earth and will collide faster
The Magellanic Current is the name that astronomers give to a huge flow of gas that winds around our Galaxy, the Milky Way. And today, researchers are suggesting that this…