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Article: Faint debris trail detected in the Andromeda galaxy.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- January 27, 2003
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2003 JAN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The discovery of a faint trail of stars in the nearby Andromeda galaxy offers new evidence that large spiral galaxies have grown by gobbling up smaller satellite galaxies.
The new findings were presented on January 6, 2003, by astronomers Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and David Reitzel of the University of California, Los Angeles, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, Washington.
Andromeda (also known as M31) is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way and is very similar to it in appearance. Studying Andromeda gives astronomers an external ...