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OUR SATELLITE’S STARS SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION

Scientists have mapped the motions of stars within the Milky Way’s companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), revealing new clues about barred galaxies. The findings could offer new insight into the processes that shape and form the structures of these galaxies, which contain bar-like bands of stars. Located about 163,000 light years

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