# Farthest stars in Milky Way might be ripped from another galaxy January 11, 2017 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) Harvard Graduate student Marion Dierickx recent paper featured: "The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk. New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy: the Sagittarius dwarf. Moreover, they are members of a lengthy stream of stars extending one million light-years across space, or 10 times the width of our galaxy." Read more at: See also:- [ Graduate Student ](/announcements/graduate-student) - [ News Media ](/filter_by/news-media) - [ 2017 ](/news-date/2017) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)