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Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ever

A tiny clump of stars orbiting our galaxy should have been ripped apart by the Milky Way, but its continued existence hints it may be held together by a massive amount of dark matter

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New view of our galaxy's black hole reveals a swirling magnetic field

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Artist's impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star

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Newly discovered smoking stars emit huge clouds and we don't know why

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Star cluster is heading for destruction at the heart of the Milky Way

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Artistic representation of how the Milky Way-like galaxy ceers-2112 would look from Earth

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Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we thought possible

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Seven wonders of the Milky Way: An astronomer’s guide to the galaxy

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Seven wonders of the Milky Way: An astronomer’s guide to the galaxy

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We can only predict star motion in the Milky Way’s heart for 462 years

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Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

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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

The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole are already tough to explain – but there also seems to be some stars missing

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

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

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