The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft will end its observations this week as it runs out of cold gas propellant. Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

Gaia has transformed our understanding of the Milky Way by providing precise data on nearly 2 billion stars. This information includes stellar movements, luminosities, temperatures, and compositions, ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of ... from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The center of the Milky Way is an extreme ...

One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...

The spacecraft’s mission was to create the largest 3D map of the Milky Way, providing insight into star motions, luminosities, and compositions. The spacecraft’s final release of data is not ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy ... ASTRO 3D and the University of Oklahoma. “We’re now seeing where the galaxy’s influence stops ...

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years ... The aim is to build the largest and most precise 3D map of our local universe. The spacecraft's first data release ...