The Milky Way is doomed to collide with nearby two dwarf galaxies sooner than expected, astronomers warn

A view of the Large Magellanic Cloud (Image: Nasa) One day our beautiful starry home will smash into a pair of dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds. Now it’s feared that this apocalyptic collision will take place a lot sooner than anyone believed possible. Astronomers analysed stars at the very edge of the Milky Way and found something very surprising. These stars are among the oldest in our galaxy, meaning the region can be compared to a ‘celestial retirement community’. But scientists were shocked to see a flock of young stars lurking among the old ones. ‘This is a puny cluster of stars — less than a few thousand in total — but it has big implications beyond its local area of the...