The result of the spacecraft’s endeavors is nothing less than the largest, most precise map of our galaxy to ... black hole in the Milky Way, just 2,000 light-years from Earth.
By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has identified a massive new radio galaxy, nicknamed Inkathazo, which translates to 'trouble ...
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
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 ...
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside the Milky Way that show how our own galaxy and others formed ... to their distance from Earth. If everything was expanding, though ...