Dancing dwarf galaxies predict our Milky Way's future

11 Aug 2025
Cosmos
A high-resolution colour image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. (Photo credit: Professor Helmut Jerjen)

A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighbouring galaxies, a University of Queensland survey has found.

Dr Sarah Sweet from the School of Mathematics and Physics is leading Delegate, a collaborative survey with the Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics among others, which aims to understand if the evolution of Earth’s home galaxy is typical of what is seen in other parts of the Universe.

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