The Milky Way also has a modest bar, and a thick disk component. But the thick disk represents only ~ 15% of the total disk mass (Majewski 1993), suggesting that no significant accretion events have happened recently.
| The Milky Way has its own set of satellite galaxies,
the largest of which is the Large Magellenic Cloud.
The Milky Way also has a modest bar, and a thick disk component. But the thick disk represents only ~ 15% of the total disk mass (Majewski 1993), suggesting that no significant accretion events have happened recently. |
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In 1994, the Sagittarius dwarf was discovered,
on the opposite side of the galactic center (Ibata etal 1994).
(Mateo etal 1996) |
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Other evidence for halo substructure is mounting:
And in the future, there's always Andromeda....
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