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Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars

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Biggest ever 3D map of the galaxy pinpoints 1.7 billion stars

The Gaia satellite has been scouring the sky for years. Over 22 months, it has located billions of stars and thousands of galaxies. Here’s what it found

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Shredded galaxy is disintegrating before our eyes after smash-up

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Shredded galaxy is disintegrating before our eyes after smash-up

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neon swirls

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The neon swirls that show how a map of our galaxy is made

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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

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We see neutrinos from the big bang in the way galaxies cluster

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This image of the area around galactic centre is a composite of images taken in X-ray, optical, and infrared wavelengths

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The centre of our galaxy may be swarming with 10,000 black holes

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Centre of the Milky Way

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Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole

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Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

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Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

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Galaxies

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Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation

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Emission nebula Sharpless 2-106

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The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

We just found 72 new galaxies in one of the most studied areas of the sky. We can’t see their stars, but they were revealed by the glow of hydrogen gas

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We've found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn't exist

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We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away

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Why our 'freakish' galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried

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Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

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