ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Inside the Milky Way's satellite galaxy: Hubble captures mesmerising Tarantula Nebula footage; watch it here
Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...
Inkathazo galaxy discovered that's 32 times bigger than Earth's Milky Way
The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...
'Super Earth': the exoplanet in the 'habitable zone' for alien life
An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...
Hubble studies the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...
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NASA X-ray telescope Chandra discovers black holes 'blow' on their food to cool it down
Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...
Mapping 2 billion stars: How Gaia transformed our view of the Milky Way
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
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Scientists detect mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...
Galactic Center: This panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of the Milky Way.
From vibrant star-forming nebulae to supernova explosions, check out these 7 astonishing images of deep space shared by NASA.
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Mid-Infrared Flare Spotted From Milky Way's Black Hole
A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...