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Spellbinding shots capture the Milky Way in all its glory

These stunning photographs are some of the winners of this year’s Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition

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?ROAD TO WINTER PARADISE? ? ANDREA CURZI

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How could we give boring blobby galaxies a new, exciting shape?

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The galactic anomalies hinting dark matter is weirder than we thought

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Astronomers have found what may be the smallest galaxy ever

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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

Chaos in the interactions between stars near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole makes it impossible to predict their trajectories after about 462 years, much shorter than expected

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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

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

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