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WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape - covered with a perpetual ocean of ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Milky Way galaxy has more than 400 billion stars in it. Over the last few decades, astronomers have discovered that almost ...