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Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
Some 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has been mapping out the Milky ...
The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of Milky Way's hidden ...
Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.
The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...
Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...