Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Cannibalism |
An informal description sometimes applied to the phenomena of a small galaxy being absorbed by a larger companion galaxy, or a star being merged into another.
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