For the first time, they have revealed the intricate motion of stars in the bar region ... using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 trillion observations of about 2 billion stars and other objects over the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

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

“Our understanding of the Milky Way Galaxy had advanced with every leap in the number ... They revealed the intricate motion of stars in the bar region without being hindered by uncertainties in ...

The disc galaxy was seen as it was just 700 ... REBELS-25 also exhibited features similar to those of the Milky Way, such as an elongated central bar of stars and even spiral arms.