Farthest Stars in Milky Way Might Be Ripped from Another Galaxy

ENN
Jan 11, 2017, 12:14 pm108 pts
The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy: the Sagittarius dwarf. Moreover, they are members of a lengthy…

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