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A brilliant cosmic explosion helped astronomers discover the Milky Way is bigger than expected

Astronomers have achieved one of the most precise measurements ever made of the Milky Way’s distant spiral arms, revealing ...
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Astronomers traced a star’s explosion to just 260 light-years from our galaxy’s black hole

A star exploded roughly 260 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and astronomers have now traced the blast’s fingerprints in X-ray and infrared ...