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Ice box

If you’ve been out in the wee hours to watch the rise of Matariki, you might have also been awed by our entire galaxy. The Milky Way is best viewed on moonless nights during the winter months, when it can be seen as a hazy band of stars stretching across the night sky.

But now, astronomers have delivered a new map of our galactic home, made not

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