A bridge of stars connects two dwarf galaxies
The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years, according to an international team of astronomers led by researchers from the University of Cambridge. The discovery is reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) and is based on the Galactic stellar census being conducted by the European Space Observatory, Gaia.
Source: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/a-br ... f-galaxies
Pre-print: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04614
MNRAS: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3357
Univ. of Cambridge: A bridge of stars connects two dwarf galaxies
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