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Gaia mission measures metals in Milky Way stars
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...
Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...
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How Gaia revealed the Milky Way
On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...
They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...
The last galactic fling was billions of years later than previously thought, indicating our galaxy may have more surprises in store. Reading time 2 minutes An artist’s impression of the Gaia ...
Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals the shockingly violent history of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_animation_by_Gaia This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data ...
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