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.
Unexpected Findings: Scientists Reveal the Milky Way Is a Cosmic Outlier
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
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Gaia Mission Measures Metals In Milky Way Stars
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...
Peculiar icy objects in outer reaches of the Milky Way perplex astronomers
A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...
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Milky Way's Massive Black Hole Spaghettified Filament Of Gas
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
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Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light-years from Earth. This relatively "nearby" distance, and its face-on orientation to Earth, make it an ideal ...
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Goodbye to the Sun in the Milky Way: experts' warning that could change humanity
"Within 2 billion years, Andromeda will have traveled the distance that separates it from the Milky Way and, just at their meeting point, they will cross each other," the expert explained ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when ...
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One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate’
Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years ...