ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to createThe new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
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Gaia Detected an Entire Swarm of Black Holes Moving Through The Milky WayThe Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for example, the history of the Universe, or the dark matter content of the galaxies they orbit ...
In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...
Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...
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How many galaxies orbit the Milky Way?Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around supermassive black holes, forming galaxies. Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies.
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