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# It turns out that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its present size partly by swallowing smaller galaxies
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vyiasniaetsia-chto-nasha-rodnaia-galaktika-mlechnyi-put-vyrosla-do-svoikh-nyneshnikh-razmerov-otchasti-za-schet-pogloshcheniia-menshikh-galaktik/
- Published: 2026-08-19T07:42:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:25:23.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Science

It turns out that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its present size partly by swallowing smaller galaxies. New data from the Hubble telescope offer compelling evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way at its very earliest stages