A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
With images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...
There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...
Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.