the milky way
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12 Incredible New Images Of Galaxies And Nebulae From The Hubble Telescope
Look up to the sky with the unaided eye and you’ll see a lot of specks and globs that look mostly like stars. On closer inspection, though, some of those dots refuse to resolve, smeared out on the night sky.
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An Astrophysics Simulation Demonstrates How Dusty Space Is
The Milky Way isn’t just stars orbiting a black hole — it’s loaded with dust and debris, floating with reckless abandon in the space between solar systems. And like the stuff that accompanies bushfires or windy days in the desert, dust makes it hard to see.