A team of astronomers using the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards — perhaps from another galaxy. The study is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
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