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The spiral galaxy is the Milky Way’s closest neighbor.

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A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.

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Our home galaxy is called the Milky Way because it appears as a milky band of light across the night sky, a phenomenon that has inspired myths and names across cultures.

The Sculptor Galaxy is among the closest massive star-forming galaxies to our own Milky Way, lying just 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere’s constellation Sculptor.

COZMIC simulator crafted detailed models of the Milky Way to investigate dark matter and how the universe might behave under different rules.

The image of Sculptor, located 11 million light-years away, spans a range of 65,000 light-years, almost the entire galaxy.