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New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky ...

29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth's horizon. At the time, the International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just before ...

TL;DR: The James Webb Space Telescope observed Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, revealing flares from its accretion disk. The world's most powerful space ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.