Ill-fated Milky Way neighbor found. (Milky Way Galaxy likely to absorb newly discovered dwarf galaxy)

Science News | April 9, 1994| | Copyright

Peering through a veil of dust and scattered starlight, English astronomers report finding the closest known galaxy to our own. The faint galaxy, a dwarf resident of the constellation Sagittarius, appears to lie just 50,000 light-years from the Milky Way's center. The Large Magellanic Cloud, until now considered the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbor, lies more than three times as far.

In addition to its proximity, the Sagittarius dwarf has other intriguing properties, says Michael J. Irwin of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Cambridge, England. The galaxy's ...

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