{"id":513552,"date":"2026-08-20T02:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=a2212c43919eb2352aa425ff38562a84"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:18:48","slug":"ancient-milky-way-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=513552","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Milky Way Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About 12 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy known as LKH collided with a young Milky Way and merged with it. This artist\u2019s concept portrays that collision. NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered definitive evidence of this collision by studying globular star clusters.<\/div>\n
NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This artist’s concept<\/a>, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, recently published in the journal\u00a0Nature Astronomy<\/a>, shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way galaxy in the earliest phases of its evolution. This finding extends our knowledge of our galaxy\u2019s history 1.8 billion years further back in time than before.<\/p>\n

Read about this discovery.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This artist\u2019s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope, recently published in the journal\u00a0Nature Astronomy, shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t