A picture taken with a wide-angle lens shows the Milky Way observed in the background of a lookout tower near the Hungarian border village of Tachty, or Tajti in Hungarian, Slovakia. Peter Komka / EPA
A picture taken with a wide-angle lens shows the Milky Way observed in the background of a lookout tower near the Hungarian border village of Tachty, or Tajti in Hungarian, Slovakia. Peter Komka / EPA

Science

Milky Way melded with smaller galaxy in cosmic crash

Union of the galaxies sparked accelerated star formation lasting up to 4 billion years, say scientists at Gaia space observatory

Reuters

July 23, 2019