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Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:29:20 +0000

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Space

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galaxies

Milky Way

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

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A new computer simulation by Gurtina Besla of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and her colleagues now shows that the Magellanic Stream resulted from a past close encounter between two dwarf galaxies rather than effects of the Milky Way.

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