It appears scientists just discovered a classic galaxy within a galaxy situation. We live in the Milky Way galaxy, a stable spiral galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars looping around and around in a circle so vast that most of us can’t even comprehend it, like a gargantuan space hurricane. According to a study recently published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , and detailed by Phys.org , somewhere buried deep inside our galaxy are the remnants of a long-lost dwarf galaxy that they’ve nicknamed Loki, a fitting name considering this trickster galaxy has been hiding in plain sight for billions of years.

The evidence comes from a small group of 20 unusual stars located in the Milky Way’s galactic plane. These stars are “metal-poor,” meaning they lack heavier elements like iron.…