Milky way it will collide with another nearby galaxy, but even before this phenomenon happens, both are already creating new stars that have begun to be visible to researchers analyzing cosmic space. They say that a collision between the Milky Way and a satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud will take place in approximately 2 billion years, it being a small galaxy, but full of dark matter, so it has a large mass.
Milky way already interacting with this galaxy, and this does not generate destruction, as the collision between them will generate, but on the contrary, it apparently gives birth to new stars that were observed by the Gaia spacecraft. She detected at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy a group of stars that until now were not known to researchers, these being the result of the interaction between the two galaxies until now, before a catastrophic collision.
Milky Way Forms NEW STARS in Collision with Another Galaxy
Milky way it has the stars formed in its distant image because there it interacts with the satellite galaxy it will collide with, they being the most distant known stars in our galaxy. They are formed at the edge of an extended group of stars that starts in the satellite galaxy and reaches the Milky Way, and most likely we are talking about a process of formation of the first stars that are the result of the interaction between the 2 galaxies.
"It's really, really far. It is further away from any known young stars in the Milky Way, which are usually in the disc. So immediately, I was like, “Holy shit, what is that? This is a cluster of stars - less than a few thousand in total - but it has big implications beyond its local area of the Milky Way."
Milky way it would not have been the source of the material for the formation of these new stars, but the satellite galaxy, or at least the researchers reached this conclusion after an analysis made with the instruments they have. "Only" 1000 stars would not have been formed in the visible group at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, but there is room for even more as the galaxies collide before the collision that will destroy them almost completely.
