Cannibal Galaxy Could Show How These Huge Structures Grow

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Image of the Umbrella Galaxy, combining data from the 0.5-meter BlackBird Remote Observatory Telescope and Suprime-Cam on the 8-meter Subaru Telescope. Credit: R. Jay Gabany

There’s a hungry galaxy on the loose about 62 million light-years away from us. Astronomers just revealed that the Umbrella Galaxy (NGC 4651) is busy gobbling up another galaxy, similar to how our own Milky Way Galaxy is eating the smaller Sagittarius.

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