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Hassled galaxy 'thriving on chaos' Powerful but unknown forces are at work in a small companion galaxy of the Milky Way, astronomers say in today's issue of the journal Science.Something is keeping the structure and magnetic field of this galaxy -the Large Magellanic Cloud -strong and ordered, even while the Milky Way's gravity works to tear them apart.A team led by Bryan Gaensler of the HarvardÂSmithsonian for Astrophysics used the CSIRO Australia Telescope near Narrabri in NSW to study the galaxy's magnetic field.
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