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Milky Way’s Last Major Merger Occurred Billions of Years Later than Previously Thought


This discovery was made possible by ESA’s Gaia spacecraft, which is mapping more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, tracking their motion, luminosity, temperature, and composition.

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