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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...
You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...