NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
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Gaia Telescope Finishes Scanning Milky Way
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...
The Year’s Best Planet Parade Will Be Visible Starting January 18
You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...
Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
ESA's Gaia spacecraft 'gives best insight yet' of what the Milky Way looks like
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
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Last Starlight For Ground-breaking Gaia
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...
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NASA’s Dragonfly Mission Set to Reveal Clues to the Mysteries of Saturn’s Moon Titan
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only object in the Solar system other than Earth with liquids on its surface. Discovered ...
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2025 Marks 100 Years Since Hubble Proved The Universe Is Vast With Galaxies Outside The Milky Way
Subsequent advances revealed first the size of the Solar System, then the distances ... Leavitt’s work was used to create rough maps of the Milky Way by finding the distances to star clusters ...