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

Astronomers have found strange strings of hot gas near the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and they may be hurtling towards Earth

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How to spot Ophiuchus, the thirteenth zodiacal constellation

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2CNWGJN Ophiuchus star constellation, Night sky, Cluster of stars, Deep space,?Serpentarius, Serpent bearer

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

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

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

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Milky Way gamma rays

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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

Extreme-velocity stars, which travel through the Milky Way with speeds of hundreds of kilometres per second, may come from dwarf galaxies that our own galaxy gobbled up

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Illustration of the Milky Way galaxy as it might appear edge on. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy roughly 100000 light-years in diameter. It is flat, shaped like two fried eggs back-to-back. At the centre is the nucleus, a vast flattened ball of old, red stars orbiting a supermassive black hole. This view imagines our galaxy seen from far from its nucleus, within the galactic plane. A lane of dust bisects the galaxy. Globular clusters (spherical clusters of stars) orbit here. One is seen in close up on the lower right.

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Rare intergalactic supernova may have been seen outside the Milky Way

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New images show our galaxy’s black hole more clearly than ever before

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A strange barrier is keeping cosmic rays out of the Milky Way’s centre

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Astronomers may have spotted a new spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy

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