'Galactic archaeologists' find origin of Milky Way's ancient stars

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 18:14 in Astronomy & Space

Many of the Milky Way's ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University.

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