A short historical outline of the subject is given, commencing with Glydén's discovery in 1871 of the galactic rotation effect ... in the neighbourhood of the sun. If this is correct, the sky ...

It completes an orbit around the planet once every 90 minutes ... the stars behind Dragon light up to reveal the Milky Way in the distance. "When the stars and Dragon align.

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its own. The question is, where did it go?

and just in the opposite place a Milky Way becomes smaller and smaller. That's why I say that the Sun could change galaxies," he added.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

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

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