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 ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Gaia was launched on December 19, 2013, and began scanning the stars in July 2014. It mapped over two billion stars, ...

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

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

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 ...

The space telescope orbits the sun nearly a million miles (1.5 million ... Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a type of planet ...