"The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are a pair of nearby dwarf 
galaxies once thought to have been in orbit around our galaxy for 
billions of years.

But that picture was shaken up in January 2007 when a team of 
astronomers announced new measurements of the pair's motion across 
the sky made by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Those observations suggested that the two galaxies are moving too 
fast to be long-time satellites of the Milky Way and instead are 
falling into our galactic neighbourhood for the first time"

Full 
article: 
<http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12652-milky-way-keeps-a-light-grip-on-speedy-neighbours.html>


-- Ronn!  :)



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