Astronomers find over 200 most distant stars in Milky Way

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Astronomers have discovered over 200 distant variable stars called RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s halo. The most distant of these stars are over a million light-years away from Earth, almost half the distance to our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, located around 2.5 million light-years away. These observations could help confirm the theoretical estimates of the halo’s size.