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For decades, humans have looked to the stars and wondered why, in such a vast universe, no one seems to be answering back.

German astronomers at the Bonn Observatory first catalogued UY Scuti: the biggest star in the universe, laying near the center of the Milky Way, roughly 9500 light-years away from Earth; at that ...