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Magellanic clouds. Photo: Andrew Lockwood for the Australian National University

The pair of Magellanic Clouds were once a trio

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The Milky Way over a desert landscape in Spain. Photo: shutterstock

The Dragon Awakens - a huge explosion 2 million years ago of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

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"The Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud". In this composite image of the wing, Chandra data are shown in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are colored red, green and blue. Infrared radiation data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red.

Suns similar to our Sun have been discovered when it was young in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy

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A twin galaxy to the Milky Way. Photo: GAMA project

The Milky Way has a twin galaxy (or two)

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How did the Large Magellanic Cloud form?

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