# @hubbleesa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcJNGTEnFtv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69178252-hubbleesa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-17T14:01:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hubble Space Telescope (@hubbleesa) — https://gondola.cc/hubbleesa

## Caption

🆕 This massive merger shaped the young Milky Way! 🌌

🔴 Our Milky Way galaxy wasn’t always this size. It has grown through massive mergers with other galaxies: the Sagittarius and Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus dwarf galaxies.

🔴 Now, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered evidence of another, even earlier event – its observations of 39 globular clusters in the inner Milky Way revealed that some came from a merger 11.8 billion years ago!

🔴 During this merger, our galaxy absorbed a dwarf galaxy which has been named Low-energy-Kraken-Heracles 🦑 or LKH for short.

For more information check the link in bio.

Artist's impression: NASA , europeanspaceagency , Joseph Olmsted (STScI)

#ESA #Hubble

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