ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Planet formation favors the metal-rich inner Milky Way, suggest scientists
Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...
Galactic Center: This panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below the center of the Milky Way.
From vibrant star-forming nebulae to supernova explosions, check out these 7 astonishing images of deep space shared by NASA.
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Astronomers discover distant galaxy that resembles a young Milky Way
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...
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Mid-Infrared Flare Spotted From Milky Way's Black Hole
A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...
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Astronomers spot a giant radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way
Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...
Mapping 2 billion stars: How Gaia transformed our view of the Milky Way
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
7 breathtaking images of Milky Way captured by NASA
This stunning image of NGC 6951 is captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years ...
Hubble snaps another gorgeous image of the Tarantula Nebula
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
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Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...