Reader Arc points us to this bizarre story:
"...using infrared light, astronomers have just found a small galaxy of about a billion stars in the constellation Canis Major, that is, astonishingly, only about 25,000 light years away from the Sun. That's closer to us than the center of our own Milky Way! The Canis Major dwarf galaxy is not faring well in its gravitational battle with the Milky Way, and there are streamers of stars being pulled off the smaller galaxy onto the disk of our own.
Some of these cannibalized stars are drifting down to become part of the Milky Way's disk, and others are even heading in the direction of the Sun. It's a pretty weird thought that some of the stars around us may not come from our galaxy at all, but were pulled off the Canis Major dwarf galaxy many millions of years ago. But maybe that's not as strange as it sounds. If the Milky Way is currently engulfing two smaller galaxies, how many has it swallowed in its many billion-year history? Is that, in fact, how large galaxies like the Milky Way come into being, by pulling in and eating any smaller galaxies that get too close?"
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If we consider everything in this universe as "alive", then a galaxy also is. So it has to feed and grows in the process, we see it "eating" so to say
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