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A man gazes at the Milky Way

Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

29 January 2020

How can we get a picture of the whole Milky Way if we are inside it? Good sleuthing is needed to combine all the clues, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Mysteriously bright supernova may have smashed up a huge gas cloud

23 January 2020

A strange supernova that’s 100 times brighter than it should be has long been a mystery, but it may be explained by the explosion slamming into a cloud of gas

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