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Old 01-05-2008
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Nearest Galaxy Colliding With Milky Way
And there's a triple merger happening right now in our own backyard too!

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An international team of astronomers from France, Italy, the UK and Australia has found a previously unknown galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way. This newly-discovered galaxy takes the record for the nearest galaxy to the centre of the Milky Way. Called the Canis Major dwarf galaxy after the constellation in which it lies, it is about 25000 light years away from the solar system and 42000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. This is closer than the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, discovered in 1994, which is also colliding with the Milky Way.
The History Channel's Universe series covered this recently too.
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ahhh! were under attack!

That triple merger is VERY interesting. I will have to look into that some more.

Also, reminds me, anyone heard anything about stardust lately? lol.
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Well, technically, yes. But those are dwarf galaxies, the merger in the other thread are quite large.

Guess it counts none the less.
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Triple merger
Point is I feel, without nocking the point, so to speak.
Whilst we may be around to evaluate the implications,
will we be around to see them
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