The idea for the time-lapse originated from a request to create an educational tool that would help students understand Earth ...

Using a tracker for motion and mobile controls for exposure transitions, Dorje Angchuk succeeded in capturing a seamless ...

A short historical outline of the subject is given, commencing with Glydén's discovery in 1871 of the galactic rotation effect in stellar proper motions, and dealing finally with recent research ...

The majority of stars are located in the thin disk of the Milky Way, where our solar system is. These stars follow an organized rotation around the galactic center. The Sun is nearly five billion ...

We are at a critical time and supporting climate journalism is more important than ever. Science News and our parent organization, the Society for Science, need your help to strengthen ...

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

Despite the apparent mass in the galaxy's disk and center, rotation curve studies reveal most mass resides in the halo, ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Prior to Gaia, obtaining a robust rotation curve for our galaxy was challenging, unlike the case for external spiral galaxies. This challenge stemmed from our position within the Milky Way ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

An artist's impression of the Milky Way, seen edge-on ... “Even basic ideas have been revised, such as the rotation of our galaxy’s central bar, the warp of the disc, the detailed structure ...