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Milky Way has a 3,000-light-year-long splinter in its arm, and astronomers don’t know why – Livescience.com

The break contains hundreds of thousands of stars, jabbing out of the galaxy’s Sagittarius arm at a dramatic angle.

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The Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way
spirals out of our galaxy’s center, forming a swooping highway of gas that spans tens of thousands of light-years
. This highway is dotted with the headlights of billions of stars, all seemingly moving along the same…

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