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><font color=blue><b><center><br> >Expansion: Big Bang or Stretching? 9 ></font></b></center> ><i> Star Streams. </i>Some stars within our Milky Way >Galaxy are moving in paths and with velocities that >show they were captured from neighboring dwarf >galaxies. The stars in each stream also have common >chemical characteristics. Most of these dwarf galaxies >have been completely “consumed” by our galaxy (12). >However, one of them, Sagittarius, is still visible, >but its orbit and its core of tightly packed stars are >too far away to be captured by the Milky Way’s gravity >(13). > >All this can be explained in two ways: (1) before the >universe was stretched out, Sagittarius and the >consumed dwarfs were formed but much closer to the >initial Milky Way Galaxy, or (2) dark matter (if it >exists at all) was distributed in unknown ways that >helped form these dwarf galaxies and placed them in >different orbits that allowed them to be captured and >cannibalized by the Milky Way Galaxy. Obviously, >hypothesis (1) is the simpler of the two. > >12. <font color=blue><i> “Hundreds of small galaxies >have been ripped apart by our galaxy, creating tenuous >streams of stars that slowly mix into the Milky’s >indigenous population.” </font></i> Rodrigo Ibata and >Brad Gibson, “The Ghosts of Galaxies Past,” ><i>Scientific American, </i>Vol. 296, April 2007, p. >41. > >13. Sidney van den Bergh, “Clumps That Survive to Tell >a Tale,” <i>Nature, </i> Vol. 402, 4 November 1999, >pp. 31–32. > ><a rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ19.h >tml">http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/FAQ19.ht >ml</a>

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