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For billions of years, an ancient cluster of stars has been gradually coming apart, shedding stars that now form a faint, narrow ribbon across space. That delicate structure is offering astronomers a new way to investigate one of the universe's biggest mysteries.
An international research team, including an astrophysicist from Northwestern University, has identified the first stellar stream of this type ever observed outside the Milky Way. Astronomers have lon...
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