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Re:Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its... by CapitalistCartr on Saturday January 09, 2021 @07:39AM (#25699873)
In a Wikipedia dive I learned the Milky Way has 59 known galaxies orbiting within 1.4 million light years. It's busy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_galaxies_of_the_Mi...

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Re:Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its... by mannykannot on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:31AM (#25700641)
The edge-on plot shows this dwarf galaxy coming in at a grazing incidence to the disk of the Milky Way. I would be curious to know how close the sun came to it as it did so, and in those times when it passed through the disk.
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Re:Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its... by everybodyknows on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:34PM (#25702361)
Title needs [2019].
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Re:Crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its... by brettwilcox on Saturday January 09, 2021 @08:06AM (#25700046)
Just thinking about this on a universal scale is mind blowing. Perhaps this is how dimensions are produced? Everything is just swirling around something else until if finally collapses in on itself.

What are all these galaxies coiling around?...

Edit: Kind of like a musical note. Hmm.

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