Farthest Milky Way Stars Could Be Stolen From Another Galaxy, Astronomers Find

We know that stars in the night sky appear in fixed locations only because they are too far for us to perceive their movements. And we also know that far from being static, stars have a dynamic existence, changing and morphing through their millions and billions of years.

But a new theory proposed by astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics still comes as somewhat of a surprise. In a study, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, they suggest that half the farthest stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, were stolen from another galaxy.