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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Wall of stars found to extend through our galaxy

A wall of mini-galaxies and star clus­ters sur­rounds our gal­axy, as­tro­no­mers say—and poses a new problem for the theory of “dark mat­ter,” an in­vis­i­ble sub­stance that permeates galaxies.
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