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Milky Way’s nearest galaxies may be new to the neighbourhood
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have their stars all out of order, suggesting they only recently showed up on the Milky Way's doorstep
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Hubble telescope catches stunning picture of the Bubble Nebula
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Dusty doughnut around massive black hole spied for first time
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Never-before-seen galaxy spotted orbiting the Milky Way
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Our galaxy’s impossible collision could break gravity
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Billion-light-year galactic wall may be largest object in cosmos
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Galactic collisions doom entire star systems to black-hole death
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Ageing Milky Way stopped making stars before it ran out of gas
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Binary stars burned off cosmic fog and made universe transparent
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Long-lost stellar siblings probe the Milky Way’s violent history
A technique to track down which stars were once siblings could help find the sun's birthplace and understand how the Milky Way evolved
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Galactic GPS: How dead stars will guide us in deep space
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Ancient quasars in distant galaxies caught switching on suddenly
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Little galaxy’s own stars cast 95 per cent of its oxygen away
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Galactic smash-ups turn on the lights around black holes
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