We often think of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, as being a self-contained collection of stars, planets, gas and dust. Sure, it’s going to slam straight into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy at some point in the distant future, but for now the Milky Way is pretty much just chilling out, right?
Not so fast.
A new research effort to study the movement of material into and out of our galaxy reveals that the Milky Way is actually growing, sucking up more and more gas, and scientists aren’t sure where this extra material is coming from.
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