ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...
Like more than two-thirds of the known galaxies, the Milky Way has a spiral shape. At the center of the spiral, a lot of energy and, occasionally, vivid flares are being generated. Even though it is ...
Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...
The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...
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A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
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 ...
A popular Milky Way product is making a comeback, after being discontinued in 2022. Milky Way Crispy Rolls are returning to shelves following a three-year-long break, much to the delight of fans ...