Milky way it is currently in the process of destroying a group of stars that is inside it, and we are talking about something that doesn't happen that often, but something that will have a huge impact on a galaxy. The Milky Way has inside it a group of stars called Hyades, it is 150 million light-years away from the Earth, it was formed 680 million years ago from a cloud of gas and dust existing in the interior of the galaxy.
Milky way so it has this group of stars far from its center, and it is visible even with the naked eye in the constellation Taurus, but unfortunately it is in full process of destruction now. Following the observations made by the Gaia telescope, the researchers managed to discover the fact that the gravitational forces inside the Milky Way galaxy are destroying that group of stars at a much faster rate than the one initially calculated by them.
The Milky Way: How to DESTROY an Inner Star Cluster
Milky way it would have several hundred thousand stars in this group, the gravitational force of the stars inside keeping the group intact, but that of the galaxy is much more serious. The cluster of stars is primarily affected by the supernova type explosions that take place inside them, and these combined with the gravitational power of the Milky Way eventually lead to the separation of the cluster, and the moving of some stars to other areas of the galaxy.
"The star cluster closest to Earth is collapsing and will soon die. Astronomers shared the diagnosis based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory. Called the Hyades, this group of stars is only 150 light years from Earth. It formed about 680 million years ago from a large cloud of gas and dust in the Milky Way. It is visible to the naked eye in the constellation Taurus.”
Milky way has this group of stars formed 680 million years ago, but researchers say that in "only" 30 million years it will disappear completely. Clusters of stars of this kind rarely reach the "age" of 1 billion years, and this is because of the forces to which they are subjected, many of them being divided long before they come to exist that long, and what we see in the Milky Way is no different.
Milky way it is the home for many cosmic bodies, and its existence affects all of them, including the Earth, but in our case there is no such danger, fortunately.
