Post by glactus on Aug 29, 2011 0:45:40 GMT
Beware the Milky Way. The Galaxy we call home is much larger, mightier and brighter than most Galaxies in the Universe. Shining with the light of hundreds of bullions of stars and shrouded in a lethal web of Dark Matter, the Milky Way Galaxy can capture and annihilate luckless Galaxies that stray into its domain.
The Milky Way Galaxy and the Sagittarius dwarf
Evidence of this was first noted quite recently when by sheer accident a small Galaxy was discovered in Sagittarius . Older type stars were seen travelling at different speeds to the main stream, the remnants of a Dwarf Galaxy that has ventured too close to the Milky Way, and as you read, is being pulled apart by it's gravity. The Milky Way has so disrupted this small Galaxy that its stars are now stretched over a 20,000 light year long region of space the shape of a cigar (See image above.
This activity does not effect you and I as the ripping apart is on the other side of the Galaxy. and even if it were in our vicinity, distances between Stars are so great that we would not notice anything unusual.
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Text by Glactus
The Milky Way Galaxy and the Sagittarius dwarf
Evidence of this was first noted quite recently when by sheer accident a small Galaxy was discovered in Sagittarius . Older type stars were seen travelling at different speeds to the main stream, the remnants of a Dwarf Galaxy that has ventured too close to the Milky Way, and as you read, is being pulled apart by it's gravity. The Milky Way has so disrupted this small Galaxy that its stars are now stretched over a 20,000 light year long region of space the shape of a cigar (See image above.
This activity does not effect you and I as the ripping apart is on the other side of the Galaxy. and even if it were in our vicinity, distances between Stars are so great that we would not notice anything unusual.
Credits: This is a non copywrite image
Text by Glactus