Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way ... referred to the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

This information includes stellar movements, luminosities, temperatures, and compositions, allowing scientists to reconstruct the history and structure of our galaxy. The mission has enabled the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a stellar duo just 5,000 light-years away in the Milky Way responsible for creating carbon-rich dust. In the Wolf-Rayet 140 system, ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us ...

we need to study one with a stellar system associated with it. Palomar 5 is the only case, making it a Rosetta Stone for understanding stream formation and that is why we studied it in detail." Map of ...

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About 6 million light-years from Earth, it is one of the Milky Way's closer neighbors ... form a so-called stellar halo: a sprawling, low-density cloud of stars that surrounds the bright central ...

The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ... The JWST Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) observed 97 young stellar objects (YSOs) in the N79 region of the ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of the Milky Way galaxy. The agency shared the visuals on social media, ...

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The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way ... stellar census contains details of star motions, luminosities, temperatures and compositions. The aim is to build the largest and most precise ...