Call it a second life, a mid-life crisis, or a zombie uprising — whatever you call it, it seems that our home galaxy died once before and has come back to life. That's according to Japanese astronomer Masafumi Noguchi. His idea solves a long-standing mystery about the stars in the Milky Way.
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Written by
Ashley Hamer
October 22, 2018
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