For the first time, astronomers have captured highly detailed pictures of a dwar...

For the first time, astronomers have captured highly detailed pictures of a dwarf galaxy consuming a smaller companion, a new study says.


Dwarf Galaxy Found Secretly Feasting on Smaller Dwarf
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The small blob of stars was first spied in digitized photographic plates from the Digitized Sky Survey project. The tiny galaxy went unconfirmed for five years because it's so very faint. The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4449, in the constellation Canes Venatici, is about 50 times brighter.

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