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Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc
- CapitalistCartr 6y agoIn a Wikipedia dive I learned the Milky Way has 59 known galaxies orbiting within 1.4 million light years. It's busy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_galaxies_of_the_Milky_Way https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_galaxies_of_the_Mi...
- brettwilcox 6y agoJust thinking about this on a universal scale is mind blowing. Perhaps this is how dimensions are produced? Everything is just swirling around something else until if finally collapses in on itself. What are all these galaxies coiling around?... Edit: Kind of like a musical note. Hmm.
- mannykannot 6y agoThe edge-on plot shows this dwarf galaxy coming in at a grazing incidence to the disk of the Milky Way. I would be curious to know how close the sun came to it as it did so, and in those times when it passed through the disk.
- everybodyknows 6y agoTitle needs [2019].