Hold up. There's only one Milky Way Galaxy, and we're not going to float idly while these ~30 imitators try to capitalize on our name.
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Hold up, whats with copy/paste galaxy bottom right? I know gravatational lensing is a thing but that just looks silly
For the people who don't know: Those are foreground stars, the black center is due to the camera pixels becoming overloaded and leaking into adjacent pixels. So no UFOs and not galaxies.
And it seems someone wanted the image to be wider so there is a bit copy pasted on the right it seems. Very weird edit really.
Ahh thanks. I didn't catch those were stars
Looks like someone with hotdogs for fingers tried to shop this image into wide format and failed, heres the real, untainted version 
Shit, look at all those black flying saucers coming straight at the telescope! Quick, hide the women, arm the kids and call {current best alien killing hollywood star}!