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\u00a0 \u00a0 A nice little article in the 21 February 2015 issue of the Economist is entitled \u201cA galactic vampire\u201d: \u00a0 Our galaxy seems to be somewhat more than thirteen billion years old, which makes it not much younger than the universe itself. \u00a0How does the Milky Way retain its youthful good looks? \u00a0Why, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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