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Find out what's up in your night sky during February 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

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Astronomer Bob Benjamin has spent the past 20 years trying to figure out what the Milky Way looks like. The work isn't easy, because we're inside the galaxy and can't see it from the outside, but ...