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Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

The Magellanic stream is a cloud of dust and gas that wraps around our galaxy. It has long been thought to host stars, but they have never been seen until now

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IceCube detector finds neutrinos from the Milky Way for the first time

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There seem to be some stars missing near the centre of the Milky Way

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Centre of our galaxy has a 'zone of avoidance' and we don't know why

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Hundreds of weird filaments of gas are hiding in our galaxy’s centre

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How to spot Ophiuchus, the thirteenth zodiacal constellation

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An image of an area of space filled with red and blue gas, and scattered stars

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Our galaxy’s black hole may have made a huge X-ray flare 205 years ago

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Milky way galaxy with stars and space dust in the universe

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The Milky Way seems to be missing nearly half of its regular matter

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A glittering multitude of stars

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We may finally know how impossible stars at our galaxy's centre formed

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year photos are out of this world

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Astronomy Photographer of the Year photos are out of this world

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The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan.

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How to spot the group of stars known as the Teapot

Look out for the Teapot, a group of stars that looks as if it has the steam of the Milky Way coming out of its spout

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Gaia telescope’s new map of the Milky Way will let us rewind time

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Mysterious gamma rays at centre of Milky Way could be from pulsars

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Some of the fastest stars in the Milky Way come from other galaxies

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Rare intergalactic supernova may have been seen outside the Milky Way

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