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Hubble Solves a Mystery About the Milky Way's Early Years

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Hubble Solves a Mystery About the Milky Way's Early Years
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New data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy’s history 1.8 billion years farther back in time than before.

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