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Is our Milky Way galaxy a zombie, already dead and we don't know it?

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imageCan a galaxy (like NGC 3810 in this case) have a classical spiral structure and also be already dead?ESA/Hubble and NASA, CC BY

Like a zombie, the Milky Way galaxy may already be dead but it still keeps going. Our galactic neighbor Andromeda almost certainly expired a few billion years ago, but only recently started showing outward signs of its...

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