Milky Way Galaxy (IMAGE)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Milky Way Galaxy

Caption

This is an artist's impression of the Milky Way. Its hot halo appears to be stripping away the star-forming atomic hydrogen from its companion dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

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NRAO/AUI/NSF

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