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Captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the image shows a star and two gas giants roughly 300 light-years away.
A team of scientists monitored the Milky Way galaxy's center to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Captured by the APEX telescope, it's the most detailed image of our galaxy ever captured from the Southern hemisphere.
The newly discovered stars could either merge together or die in supernova explosions, leaving behind black holes.