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Article: Andromeda: the cannibal galaxy

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September 3, 2009
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It happened 2.3 million light years away and took 3 billion years: time-lapse picture shows one galaxy eating up another

As cosmic events go, this one is hard to beat. Scientists have built up a dramatic time-lapse picture of one galaxy swallowing up another in a cannibalistic act that takes place over a period of 3 billion years - about as long as it took for slime-like Earthlings to evolve into humans.

Astronomers have been able to witness a feature of galaxy evolution that they have long suspected, but have been unable to visualise, in which one swirling mass of stars devours another that has come within its gravitational sphere of influence.

A telescopic study of the Andromeda galaxy ...

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