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It has a diameter of over 100,000 light-years and is home to an estimated 200 billion stars. But what do we really know about our home galaxy, the Milky Way? Well, apparently you never stop learning, even on your own galactic doorstep: in fact, in recent months, experts have gathered a series of spectacular insights that shed a whole new light on the Milky Way! And this even starts with a very fundamental point – after all, the latest data suggests that we have been categorizing the Milky Way all wrong this whole time! But that’s not all: in the same breath, astronomers have also discovered a gigantic 16,000 light-year structure in our home galaxy – and found out that the bizarre gravitational monster at its center has been through something that impressively demonstrates the primal forces
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