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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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When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will create an opportunity for precision in space exploration that has never been ...

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In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.