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 ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in ... temperature and composition of stars in the Milky Way since its launch in December 2013 to create a ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions ... of stars in the Milky Way since its launch in December 2013 to create a ‘huge stellar census’.

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 ...

One of the most extensively studied stellar ... density of stars along the stream, while a spur is an over-density of stars stretching out from the main body of the stream. The Milky Way's ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller ... form a so-called stellar halo: a sprawling, low-density cloud of stars that surrounds the bright central disk of a galaxy and traces ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

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 ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

The first, “stellar” black holes ... have been found in abundance in dwarf galaxies near the Milky Way that are thought to be dominated by dark matter. Bellinger and colleagues note that ...

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 ...