Mission accomplished for space telescope Gaia
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
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ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...
Deadly black hole, 6 lakh times heavier than the sun, heading for Milky Way: Scientists warn
A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...
101 Galaxies Later: Why the Milky Way Stands Out in the Universe
New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...
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A Supermassive Black Hole Is on a Collision Course With The Milky Way
Once the two galaxies are merged, the supermassive hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud – if black hole there is – will make ...
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Mapping 2 billion stars: How Gaia transformed our view of the Milky Way
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia spacecraft concluded its sky-scanning mission after mapping the Milky Way for more than 10 years. On January 15, Gaia completed its last observations ...
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Gaia Mission Measures Metals In Milky Way Stars
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Trump orders strikes on IS targets in Somalia Retirees Don’t Have To Pay ...
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NASA May Have Found The Fastest Planetary System We've Ever Seen
In the Milky Way's central bulge, about 24,000 light-years from Earth, a peculiar pair of objects appears to be hurtling ...
Astronomy: Star with exoplanet may be hurtling out of the Milky Way
A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.