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***IcyPatriot*** · 04-15-2011, 07:55 PM

Going to revive this thread with some info and a You Tube ... interesting stuff.

YouTube - A Look at the Milky Way's Future

Steven Majewski in "Explorations"

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"These findings do not necessarily refute the accepted view," Majewski says. "They simply indicate that the processes that formed the Milky Way are not as straightforward and uniform as first imagined." Majewski believes the dozen or so dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are the source of this erratic motion.

There is some evidence that the gravitaitonal force of the Milky Way is tearing these galaxies apart, in the process stripping off large ribbons of stars. "My goal," he says, "is to show that stars are being cannibal satellite systems." In other words, Majewski believes that the stars in the outer halo of the Milky Way were not produced when the Milky Way condensed, but were pulled from the disintegrating neighboring galaxies.

***IcyPatriot*** · 04-15-2011, 08:03 PM

Going to revive this thread with some info and a You Tube ... interesting stuff.

We may not be Milky Wayans ... we may be Sagittarians ... where's Spock

YouTube - A Look at the Milky Way's Future

Steven Majewski in "Explorations"

Quote:

"These findings do not necessarily refute the accepted view," Majewski says. "They simply indicate that the processes that formed the Milky Way are not as straightforward and uniform as first imagined." Majewski believes the dozen or so dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way are the source of this erratic motion. There is some evidence that the gravitaitonal force of the Milky Way is tearing these galaxies apart, in the process stripping off large ribbons of stars. "My goal," he says, "is to show that stars are being cannibal satellite systems." In other words, Majewski believes that the stars in the outer halo of the Milky Way were not produced when the Milky Way condensed, but were pulled from the disintegrating neighboring galaxies.