Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

ESA. The Milky Way is still experiencing the effects of this vast, ancient stellar near miss, a story remembered in the current velocities and paths of the stars impacted.

The stars of our Milky Way are giving up their secrets to the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft and its stunning new star catalog. ESA's new Gaia galaxy map shines with 1.7 billion stars ...

Gaia makes its final science observation The European Space Agency's (ESA) Milky Way mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion ...

A collision between the Milky Way and neighboring galaxy Andromeda is far from a sure thing; in fact, it could hinge on the flip of a cosmic coin. ... (ESA) star tracking mission Gaia.

ESA has published a colossal data release from the agency’s Gaia observatory, which is currently engaged in a mission to survey 1 billion stars orbiting in the Milky Way. The data has already ...

Image: Halo stars: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The region of interest in the Gaia data is the Milky Way’s inner ...

Annotated version of the all-sky view of stars in the Milky Way, based on the first year of observations from ESA’s Gaia satellite, from July 2014 to September 2015.

Three simulations showing Milky Way and Andromeda bypass at 1 million light year separation. ... CREDIT: NASA/ESA. On that earlier timescale, the sun will have already burnt itself out.

We live in the Milky Way galaxy, an immense, flat, spiral galaxy surrounded by a massive halo of stars and dark matter. The disk of stars, gas, and dust in which the Sun resides is fully 120,000 ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has released an unprecedented map showing "high-precision measurements" of about 1.7 previously undiscovered billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.