{
  "id": 1972723,
  "title": "Ancient Milky Way Merger",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/ancient-milky-way-merger",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-19T16:18:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NASA",
    "slug": "nasa",
    "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/ancient-milky-way-merger/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "This artist’s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}