ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
Gaia has also found many previously unknown filamentary structures at the disk's edge. The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal ...
Last starlight for Gaia as it completes sky-scanning mission phase
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...
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On the evolution of galaxies
Scientists have investigated the properties of globular clusters (GCs) to identify those belonging to the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph), a satellite galaxy to ...
Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
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Survivors from the Milky Way's birth
They have identified dwarf galaxies and pinpointed when they made contact with our galaxy, including Gaia-Enceladus about 9 billion years ago and the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy roughly 7 ...
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Light years
The closest known galaxy to Earth is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, at 25,000 light years from the Sun. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is the next closest, at 70,000 light years from the Sun.
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A strange black hole is acting even stranger
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...