article_snippet: The team of scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York is located 65,000 light-years from our galaxy’s centre, and in total is 200,000 light-years in length.
article_snippet: Previously The team of scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York was thought to be a stream of stars torn from our galaxy due to interactions with the Milky Way.
article_snippet: The latest discovery was made using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a projecting to map parts of the universe in three dimensions.
article_snippet: The results will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
highlights_snippet: Previously This was thought to belong to a nearby dwarf galaxy .
  
highlights_snippet: Now astronomers are fairly certain
highlights_snippet: This is part of the Milky Way .