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Science 10 January 2003:
Vol. 299. no. 5604, p. 183
DOI: 10.1126/science.299.5604.183a
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News of the Week

ASTRONOMY:
Surveys Spot Ring Around the Milky Way

Robert Irion

SEATTLE--Two teams of astronomers have announced that our galaxy--like Saturn and a certain hobbit--possesses a grand ring of its own. The thick torus of stars, about twice as far from the center of the galaxy as our sun, probably arose after the Milky Way shredded a much smaller neighbor billions of years ago.

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