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It gave us the best map of the Milky Way. Now the Gaia spacecraft is orbiting into retirement
ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...
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'Unlike any objects we know': Scientists get their best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling at the Milky Way's center
A radio-wave map of the Milky Way's turbulent center, taken with the MeerKAT telescope. New research used radio observations like these in order to discover previously unknown 'tornado'-like ...
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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...
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Star-mapping space telescope Gaia sent into ‘retirement orbit’
Since launching in 2013, the telescope has been charting the positions, motion and properties of nearly two billion stars to ...
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It gave us the best map of the Milky Way. Now the Gaia spacecraft is orbiting into retirement
Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into the composition of our home galaxy and how it evolved, formed and is structured. Unlike the James ...