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Bigger Galaxy Eats Smaller Neighbor

Posted by michael on from the tastes-like-chicken dept.

Mr.Happy3050 writes "CNN is reporting here that the large galaxy Centarus A absorbed a smaller neighboring galaxy 200-400 million years ago. The absorption created a line of blue stars thousand of light-years across."

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  1. Terrorism by cytone126 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We must be vigilant of the Galatic Axis of Evil that contains most of the stars of Ursa Major and Minor. Remember, animals like bears like caves, so do terrorists, and terrorists like nothing more than to destroy entire galaxies. Sources say that the origin of the attack was the Veil Nebula due to its fundamentalists views. Orion denies involvement, but The Milky Way Intelligence Agency, MWIA, believes that he had to help due to his extensive beard.