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Astronomers find Milky Way galaxy’s most-distant stars

Astronomers have detected, in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way’s outer limits, a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy – almost halfway to a neighbouring galaxy. The researchers said these 208 stars inhabit the remotest reaches of the Milky Way’s halo, a spherical stellar cloud dominated by the mysterious invisible substance called dark matter that makes itself known only through its gravitational influence.