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Articles about Milky Way

911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way

Ancient ball of suns smeared across space by our galaxy two billion years ago

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a charred white dwarf star blasted across our galaxy by an ancient semi-supernova

When two don't become one

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective

Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way

Getting to them is, however, quite another kettle of fish

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Hydrogen clouds in a far-away star system glowing from a supernova's last gasp

Exploding sun's shock wave may have sparked light from interstellar gas

The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

Yum, long noodle-like stars

Astroboffins discover Sun is surfing on 9,000-light-year gas wave that acts as Milky Way's stellar nursery

The Radcliffe is totally radical

100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins

Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good

Watch out! Andromeda, the giant spiral galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way, has devoured several galaxies before

Only four billion years to wait to watch the pair duking it out

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Video'We've never seen it eat so much in over 20 years!'

Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago

Uh-oh, the more sizeable opponent Andromeda is next

You've been dying to know. Here's the answer: The Milky Way tips the cosmic scales at '1.5tr' times mass of the Sun

Still looks slim thank to Spanx-like dark matter

It was the best of times, it was the WFIRST of times: How NASA's next exoplanet hunter could find 1,000+ worlds

Boffins predict success rate of telescope's gravitational microlensing tech

How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way

And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth

What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years

50-year theory finally confirmed by European space probe

Forget 2019's tech biz takeovers, here's the mega-merger everyone's talking about: Milky Way and LMC, coming soon

And by soon, we mean, two billion years

Astroboffins spot one of the oldest, coolest stars in the universe lurking in the Milky Way

Ancient light source may last trillions of years before dying

Universe slipped Milky Way a sausage galaxy to grow a big belly bulge

It's the largest dwarf galaxy to smash into us yet found

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