Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
Legendary Gaia Spacecraft Maps Entire Galaxy, Promptly Retires
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...
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100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't alone
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week
The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...
Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
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Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...
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When Will The Milky Way Smash Into The Andromeda Galaxy? It May Already Be Underway, Say Scientists
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... either consuming Earth or roasting it.