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gizmodo.comscience6 days ago
Astronomers Identify Metal-Poor Stars Near Milky Way Disk as Possible Remnants of Ancient Galaxy
A new study published in May reports that 20 metal-poor stars located roughly 7,000 light-years from the Sun may be remnants of a dwarf galaxy the Milky Way absorbed more than 10 billion years ago. Researchers named the proposed galaxy Loki and used data from the European Space A…