Space.com July 07, 2026 • 20:00

Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought - Space

By Chelsea Gohd

Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thought - Space

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

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