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| | 3 | Dr. Kathryn Johnston |
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| | 5 | Professor of Astronomy |
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| | 7 | Galactic Cannibalism |
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| | 9 | Images of galaxies are often awe-inspiring - spirals of billions of |
| | 10 | stars spinning slowly in the sky. Yet these magical objects are |
| | 11 | thought to have formed quite violently through the agglomeration of |
| | 12 | smaller objects. Even our own home - the Milky Way galaxy - seems to |
| | 13 | be in the process of devouring several smaller galaxies! This talk |
| | 14 | examines why we think galaxies are cannibals from both observational |
| | 15 | and theoretical perspectives. |
