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Article: 'Cannibalised' galaxies feeding new stars.

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September 3, 2009
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NEW pictures of a galaxy's outskirts reveal that many stars there are simply the leftovers of smaller galaxies it has "cosmically cannibalised".

Stars around the Andromeda Galaxy were captured by an international astronomy team in the largest ever panoramic survey of the system. The survey covered a region nearly a million light years across and charted Andromeda's unexplored borders.

It detected faint stars and giant structures which are the remnants of smaller galaxies, "cannibalised by Andromeda as part of its ongoing expansion".

At 2.5m light years from our own galaxy (the Milky Way) the ...

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