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Named After the Sister River of Mandakini, the Milky Way’s Hindi Namesake — Alaknanda Galaxy Emerges as the Distant Cosmic Sister of Our Own Galaxy Image of the newly discovered spiral galaxy Alaknanda (inset) as observed in the shorter wavelength JWST bands. Several bright galaxies from the foreground Abell 2744 cluster are also seen. [Source: NASA/ESA/CSA, I. Labbe/R. Bezanson/Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Rashi Jain/Yogesh Wadadekar (NCRA-TIFR)] Indian researchers have made a grou

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