Two UK-developed telescopes are used to make a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.

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Picture captures a billion stars

Scientists’ predictions of the formation and characteristics of dark matter are shaken by research into dwarf galaxies surrounding the Milky Way.

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Dark matter theory ‘may be wrong’

Astronomers reported that for each of the Milky Way’s 200 billion stars, there are at least two Jupiter-size planets, many on their own or only distantly bound to a star.

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Billions of Lonely Planets, Adrift in Space

Good luck finding a mnemonic for remembering their names: Scientists have found 10 possible planets that don’t stay in a neat order like our solar system. That’s because they don’t have orbits-they just wander the Milky Way. The bodies, likely gaseous…

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Astronomers Find Orbitless Planets

Scientists have proposed a means to track down the dark dwarf galaxies that should be orbiting the Milky Way, saying they have found evidence of one, reports the BBC’s Jason Palmer.

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Dark follower of Milky Way sought

The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way – Andromeda – was born when two smaller galaxies collided, say astronomers.

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Andromeda ‘born in a collision’

Only a few short years after Pluto lost its planet status, schoolchildren may have to learn a whole new planet. Scientists said Thursday that, indeed, one had been discovered just outside the Milky Way-and that it’s the first of its kind. The planet,…

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New Planet Spotted Outside Galaxy

Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

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Planet found circling dying star

Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

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Planet found circling dying star

Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

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Planet found circling dying star

Scientists discovered two bubbles of energy erupting from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Bubbles Of Energy Are Found In Galaxy