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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 06 > Milky Way bigger than once thought

Milky Way bigger than once thought


January 6, 2009

Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore.

Scientists mapped the Milky Way in a more detailed, three-dimensional way and found that....

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