The spiral galaxy NGC 3521 looms serenely in this image, captured with two telescopes over a total exposure time of 19 hours. The image was taken from the El Sauce Observatory in Chile.
The pristine star formed outside the Milky Way and later drifted into our galaxy.
The collision likely resembles the one that formed the Moon around 4.5 billion years ago.
Without the mass stellar migration, life may not have been able to form on Earth.
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Venus may be hiding a vast network of underground caves carved by ancient lava.
A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.
