SAGA SATELLITES by Shannon Hall An Unusual Home A new survey hints that the Milky Way might be an outlier - with broad implications for our understanding of the universe. THE MILKY WAY Smears of galactic starlight and dust hang over a private game reserve in Namibia, a sight familiar to those under dark skies. But is the environment our Milky Way provides typical of galaxies its size? 34 APRIL 2022 * SKY & TELESCOPE DON MCCRADY / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0