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Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Debris Surrounding Milky Way

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Uploaded by on Mar 19, 2010

This animation shows the model of the tidally shredded Sagittarius dwarf galaxy wrapping around a 3-D representation of the Milky Way disk (flattened blue spiral). The yellow dot represents the position of the Sun. The associated movie shows a flyaround view of this system.

credit: David R. Law, UCLA

source: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~drlaw/Sgr/

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  • This is the first model I've seen where the Stellar Stream looks like a big pretzel. It almost looks like it's splitting off to form another loop too.

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