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.

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

Using a tracker for motion and mobile controls for exposure transitions, Dorje Angchuk succeeded in capturing a seamless ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around ... the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A(asterisk), is about 4 million times more massive than our sun and ...

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, ...

An illustration shows the Gaia spacecraft telescope drifting between Earth and the sun as the Milky Way ... stars and other objects in and around the Milky Way. This vast stellar census contains ...