Ancient ‘Fossil Galaxy’ Buried Inside The Milky Way – Found

An artist’s impression of what the Milky Way might look like seen from above. The colored rings show the rough extent of the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. The yellow dot shows the position of the sun. Credit: Danny Horta-Darrington (Liverpool John Moores University), NASA/JPL-Caltech, and the SDSS

Using  data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), scientists found ancient and massive fossil galaxy inside our Milky Way.

The discovered fossil galaxy may have collided with the Milky Way ten billion years ago, when our galaxy was still in its infancy. Astronomers dubbed it Heracles, after the ancient Greek hero who received the gift of immortality when the Milky Way was created.

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