NASA Discovers Eerie Remains Of A Galaxy The Milky Way Devoured
Astronomers have discovered remnants of a galaxy that the Milky Way gobbled up roughly 10 billion years ago, consisting of "metal-poor" stars consistent with dwarf galaxies.
Space is mind-bogglingly vast. To understand its scale, consider that light travels at 186,282 miles per second. At that speed, light can circle Earth seven and a half times in a single second. Yet, even when moving that fast, it takes a beam of light 100,000 years to travel from one side of our Milky Way galaxy to the other.
Our solar system is just a tiny speck within this collection of several hundred billion stars. This sprawling galactic disc is constantly moving, rotating, and growing, and for a long time, scientists have tried to piece together exactly how it evolved into the giant structure we live in today.
A fresh discovery has provided a vital clue to that ancient puzzle, revealing that...
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