Dispute
Several studies cast doubts on the nature of the dwarf galaxy. The data suggests that the trail of stars is actually part of the warped galactic thin disk and thick disc population and not a result of the collision of the Milky Way with a dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This conclusion, however, is still being challenged and the true nature of the overdensity in Canis Major remains unknown.
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