Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service. This spacecraft, dedicated to mapping the Milky Way, has exhausted ...

21 cm radiation is a powerful tool in the field of astronomy that allows astronomers to map the structure of our Milky Way galaxy, understand its rotation, and even estimate the masses of distant ...

The two streams, named Shakti and Shiva, helped form the infant Milky Way ... map of other known components that have played a role in our galaxy's formation and were discovered using Gaia ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map ... Milky Way has and what the bar in the middle looks like. "Gaia has discovered very different things, among others a ...

Previously, these had been difficult to identify, but with the Gaia space observatory's data having mapped the Milky Way with high precision in three dimensions, more of these streams have been ...