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Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

who led a project to capture the most detailed infrared map ever of the Milky Way galaxy. “We made so many discoveries.” The new map, published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics, covers an ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

The new data strongly suggest that the Milky Way galaxy was formed in two distinct phases, manifested by different age-chemical abundance relations. The inner disk, located well within the radius ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The image is being combined with those from other survey telescopes—such as PanSTARRS 1—to produce a 360º panoramic view of the Milky Way’s disk. “With this new survey, we can map the ...