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Université de Genève

Artist impression

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Clouds and streams of cosmic pristine gas (magenta) accrete onto the Milky Way, but this gas does not efficiently mix in the Galactic disk, as highlighted for the Solar neighborhood (zoom-in).

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© Dr Mark A. Garlick

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