ESA - Top-down view of the Milky Way
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Hubble discovers mysterious black hole which astronomers claim 'shouldn't exist
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Milky Way's Stellar Halo is At Least Two Million Light-Years Across
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The Milky Way has a mass of 1.5 trillion suns. Most of it is mysterious dark matter. - Vox
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NASA: 360-Degree Visualization Shows Galactic Center
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Ancient Stars Somehow Survived Close to the Center of the Milky Way - Universe Today
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ESA - Top-down view of the Milky Way (annotated)
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Ancient Sagittarius Flyby Left Ripples in Milky Way - The Atlantic
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Milky Way - Wikipedia
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ESA - Top-down view of the Milky Way
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spots a gem of a spiral galaxy
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The largest NASA Hubble Space Telescope image ever assembled, this sweeping bird's-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA : r/space
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Beginner's Guide To Galaxies
Webb telescope images show an unprecedented and 'chaotic' view of the center of our galaxy