Sausage Galaxy (IMAGE)

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Sausage Galaxy

Caption

An impression of the encounter between the Milky Way galaxy and the smaller Sausage galaxy about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago. The record of this ancient encounter is still preserved in the velocities and chemistry of the stars.

Credit

V. Belokurov (Cambridge, UK); Based on image by ESO/Juan Carlos Muñoz

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