Stars from an alien galaxy are raining down on our own Milky Way and passing just a few hundred light-years from Earth. That’s the conclusion of astronomers who have mapped the extent of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, one of two dwarf galaxies that the Milky Way’s gravity is ripping apart (SN: 11/15/03, p.
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