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    Meet the YouTube superstars The revolution will not be televised but it’s already online, thanks to a new generation of self-made YouTube stars whose video blogs, music and sketches are gaining them huge worldwide audiences – and making them rich Photo: Seven of the top YouTube creators, from left to right: Lex Croucher (tyrannosauruslexxx), Klaire De Lys (KlaireDeLys), Benjamin Cook (ninebrassmonkeys), Christopher Bingham (slomozo), Hazel Hayes (chewing sand), Shirley B Eniang (shirleybeniang), Thomas Ridgewell (tomSka) - find out more about them all here. Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer

    Meet the YouTube superstars

    The revolution will not be televised but it’s already online, thanks to a new generation of self-made YouTube stars whose video blogs, music and sketches are gaining them huge worldwide audiences – and making them rich

    Photo: Seven of the top YouTube creators, from left to right: Lex Croucher (tyrannosauruslexxx), Klaire De Lys (KlaireDeLys), Benjamin Cook (ninebrassmonkeys), Christopher Bingham (slomozo), Hazel Hayes (chewing sand), Shirley B Eniang (shirleybeniang), Thomas Ridgewell (tomSka) - find out more about them all here. Photograph: Richard Saker for the Observer

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    The Brecon Beacons in Wales have won the status of “international dark sky reserve” – the fifth place in the world to gain the accolade from the International Dark-Sky Association. The site joins Mont Mégantic in Quebec, Exmoor national park in Devon, Aoraki Mackenzie in New Zealand and the NamibRand nature reserve in Namibia. Galloway Forest Park in Scotland is an “international dark sky park” Photo credit: Michael Sinclair

    The Brecon Beacons in Wales have won the status of “international dark sky reserve” – the fifth place in the world to gain the accolade from the International Dark-Sky Association. The site joins Mont Mégantic in Quebec, Exmoor national park in Devon, Aoraki Mackenzie in New Zealand and the NamibRand nature reserve in Namibia. Galloway Forest Park in Scotland is an “international dark sky park”
    Photo credit: Michael Sinclair

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    An international team of astronomers has created a vast, zoomable image of some nine billion pixels showing more than 84 million stars in the central ‘bulge’ of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The image is so large that, if printed at the resolution of a picture in an ordinary book it would be 9 metres wide and 7 metres high. Click on the picture to see the image zoomed in Photographer: ESO

    An international team of astronomers has created a vast, zoomable image of some nine billion pixels showing more than 84 million stars in the central ‘bulge’ of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The image is so large that, if printed at the resolution of a picture in an ordinary book it would be 9 metres wide and 7 metres high. Click on the picture to see the image zoomed in

    Photographer: ESO

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    Photograph: handout/Reuters Our picture desk’s selection of the best news images of the day: A mesmerising photo illustration provided by Nasa shows the sky at night just before the predicted merger between our own Milky Way galaxy and neighbouring Andromeda. Offering a glimpse into the future, the view is inspired by computer modelling of the collision about 4bn years from now - a merger that will form a single galaxy in about 6bn years

    Photograph: handout/Reuters

    Our picture desk’s selection of the best news images of the day:

    A mesmerising photo illustration provided by Nasa shows the sky at night just before the predicted merger between our own Milky Way galaxy and neighbouring Andromeda. Offering a glimpse into the future, the view is inspired by computer modelling of the collision about 4bn years from now - a merger that will form a single galaxy in about 6bn years

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