Galactic snack time: Stream of stars slowly being ingested by the Milky Way
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 12:31
in Astronomy & Space
Yale astronomers have caught the Milky Way having a snack. Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, they have discovered a band, or stream, of stars believed to be the remnant of an ancient star cluster slowly being ingested by the Milky Way, Earth's home galaxy.