Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into ... Gaia gave us detailed measurements of stars across the galaxy. "Missions that produce images ...

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

A team of astronomers has created the largest 3D map of our universe to date and tracked dark energy’s influence on the ...

题目: Toward Unveiling the Origins of the Milky Way Bulge through Multi-band-Messenger Sky Surveys ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

Given its recognizable features and impressive size, the researchers have dubbed this galaxy the most distant Milky Way "twin" ever observed ... "This allows JWST to map large areas of the ...

The spacecraft, which has been creating a highly detailed three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond, proved surprisingly difficult to kill. "Switching off ...

The new image of a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud combines data from different wavelengths to provide this highly-detailed photo ... section of the Milky Way.