ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
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Survivors from the Milky Way's birth
They have identified dwarf galaxies and pinpointed when they made contact with our galaxy, including Gaia-Enceladus about 9 billion years ago and the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy roughly 7 ...
Dancing with death: Intrepid white dwarf has close encounter with massive black hole
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
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On the evolution of galaxies
Scientists have investigated the properties of globular clusters (GCs) to identify those belonging to the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph), a satellite galaxy to ...