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Astronomers Discover a Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter


A ghostly ribbon of stars winding around a faint galaxy 115 million light-years away is giving astronomers a rare new way to trace one of the universe’s most elusive ingredients: dark matter.

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