13-01-2023, 11:51 PM
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Astronomers find the most distant stars in our galaxy halfway to Andromeda
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Originally Posted by Tim Stephens, 9 Jan 2023, UC Santa Cruz
Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, which is about 2.5 million light years away.
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Full story here :-
https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/milky-way-halo.html
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