New Galaxy Behind the Closest Galaxy to Milky Way

Image Source : Google 5/1/2024 Author: Shivam

Research has revealed that the galaxy nearest to Milky Way is hiding another galaxy behind it.

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The satellite galaxy of the Milky Way galaxy is 199,000 light-years from the Earth.

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An astronomer from Maryland traced the path of gas clouds and young stars around the Small Magellanic Cloud.

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They found that the small galaxy is about 18,900 light-years wide has two different galaxies thousands of light-years apart.

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Both the dwarf galaxies are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way galaxy.

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They are slowly pulled towards our galaxy for a collision and merger in the far future.

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The larger galaxy has a disk-like shape as that of our Milky Way galaxy.

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The smaller galaxy is of irregular shape and is one-third the mass of the larger galaxy.

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Japan Eyes Lunar Landing of SLIM Lander as it Enters Moon Orbit

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