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ON ANOTHER ARM

A newly discovered star-forming arm at the fringes of the Milky Way may be a vast, outer extension of the arm Scutum-Centaurus. The finding suggests that the Milky Way has a rare symmetry, with one half of the galaxy the mirror image of the other half. Credit: T. Dame, Robert Hurt

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