A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...
Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...