{
  "id": 1767751,
  "title": "Milky Way Swallowed Dwarf Galaxy Nearly 11.8 Billion Years Ago",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/milky-way-swallowed-dwarf-galaxy-nearly-11-8-billion-years-ago",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-18T18:14:26.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Sci.News",
    "slug": "sci-news",
    "url": "https://www.sci.news/astronomy/low-energy-kraken-heracles-galaxy-15000.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found definitive evidence that the young Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy just two billion years after the Big Bang, revealing one of the earliest major mergers in the history of our Galaxy. The Milky Way today is a massive spiral galaxy home to hundreds of billions […] The post Milky Way Swallowed Dwarf Galaxy Nearly 11.8 Billion Years…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}