Astronomers witness David versus Goliath fight between galaxies
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 10:20
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have witnessed, in the finest detail yet, a brutal David-vs-Goliath fight between two nearby galaxies that are tearing chunks from each other and flinging them into the gaseous Magellanic Stream, a cosmic river of blood encircling our Milky Way.