Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
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Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...
You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...