A team used the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope to create the most detailed infrared map of the universe ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe, according to ...

Our Sun belongs to a spiral galaxy called the Milky Way. Astronomers estimate ... This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature ...

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