New Map of Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy to Be a Cannibal; Study Shows Milky Way Is Out to Lunch.

AScribe Science News Service | September 24, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: University of Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chicken Little was right. The sky is falling.

Thousands of stars stripped from the nearby Sagittarius dwarf galaxy are streaming through our vicinity of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new view of the local universe constructed by a team of astronomers from the University of Virginia and the University of Massachusetts.

Using volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in infrared light led by the University of ...

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