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Milky Way Expected to Survive a Beating

Posted September 08, 2009 8:00 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Though the Milky Way is taking a good beating from nearby mini-galaxies that sometimes slam into it, our galaxy is not likely to de destroyed by this process as some scientists had predicted, a new study finds. Circling around the Milky Way are between 20 and 25 known satellite dwarf galaxies, which are smaller clumps of stars bound in orbit around the Milky Way by gravitational attraction.

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09/12/2009 5:33 PM

So if these smaller galaxies are "bound in orbit around the Milky Way", how is it going to take a beating? And won't all the dark matter around the edges protect it anyway?

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