Hubble and Gaia reveal dwarf galaxy merger from 11.8 billion years ago
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Hubble Space Telescope observations have uncovered definitive evidence that the Milky Way consumed a dwarf galaxy called LKH about 11.8 billion years ago, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, extending our knowledge of the galaxy's history 1.8 billion years farther back than previously known.
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