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    Artist's impression of hypervelocity star HE 0437-5439, which has been booted out of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
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    The mystery of the Milky Way’s runaway stars

    A DECam image showing the bulge of the Milky Way: part of a survey of 250 million stars. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA. Acknowledgment: Image processing: W. Clarkson (UM-Dearborn), C. Johnson (STScI), and M. Rich (UCLA), Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin.
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    Milky Way bulge imaged in survey of 250 million stars

    Durdle Door in Dorset, UK A nightscape capture of the Milky Way is a great opportunity to try your processing skills. Credit: Schroptschop / iStock / Getty Images Plus
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    Observing guide How to see the Milky Way

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    A view of the centre of the Milky Way by the Very Large Telescope. Credit ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.
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    Study puts the Milky Way’s disc at 10 billion years old

    A view of the centre of the Milky Way by the Very Large Telescope. Credit ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.
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    Eye On The Sky Very Large Telescope views the centre of the Milky Way

    A cataclysmic flare, propelled from the heart of the Milky Way 3.5 million years ago, was felt 200,000 lightyears away. Credit: James Josephides/Thorsten Tepper-Garcia/ASTRO 3D
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    Observations shed light on the history of our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole

    Milky Way bubbles captured by the MeerKAT telescope. Credit: Oxford, SARAO
    Astrophotography

    MeerKAT spots Milky Way bubbles

    A Spitzer Space Telescope of a region within the Milky Way. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Milky Way Project
    Astrophotography

    Eye On The Sky Spitzer Space Telescope views cosmic bubbles in infrared

    An image of the Andromeda Galaxy by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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    Andromeda Galaxy’s last meal

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    S5-HVS1 has been speeding away ever since its dust-up with black hole Sgr A* 4.8 million years ago. Credit: hadzi3/iStock/Getty Images, Vadim Sadovski/iStock/Getty Images.
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    Speeding star reveals the secrets of the Milky Way

    A section of Mary's Milky Way mosaic. Credit: Mary McIntyre
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    Astrophotography guide Create a Milky Way mosaic

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    What is the Milky Way?

    An artist's impression of the Gaia spacecraft mapping the Milky Way Copyright ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier
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    ESA’s Gaia: mapping the Milky Way

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    Astronomy star catalogues: which to use and when

    A panorama of the centre of the Milky Way. Image Credit: ESO/S. Brunier
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    Milky Way rich in ‘greasy’ molecules

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