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This star has the strangest sky in the galaxy

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Star S301 orbits Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, at just 1.7 billion kilometers away—closer than Saturn orbits the sun—making it experience severely warped time and space that creates a view of the cosmos unlike any other known place in the galaxy.

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