Just 4 percent of galaxies have neighbors like the Milky Way

Monday, May 23, 2011 - 14:30 in Astronomy & Space

How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, astrophysicists compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent are like the galaxy Earth calls home.

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