Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
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Gaia Telescope Finishes Scanning Milky Way
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
ESA's Gaia telescope discovers over 100 black holes hidden in ancient star cluster
Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...
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Gaia, the space telescope observing the Milky Way, completes sky-scanning phase
The Gaia space telescope, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in December 2013 with the aim of creating a detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy, has observed about 2 ...
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Hubble's 2.5-Billion-Pixel Mosaic Reveals Andromeda in Breathtaking Detail
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...
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2.5-Billion-Pixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Worth The Decade Of Hubble Observations
The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...
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Hawaii Has The Largest Reflector Telescope In The US But It's Not Run By Who You Think
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
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Gaia's Farewell Gift Is The Best Milky Way Map We've Ever Seen
We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.
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Gaia space telescope completes its scanning of the Milky Way
Wave farewell to Gaia During the technology tests Gaia’s orientation will be changed, meaning it will temporarily become several magnitudes brighter, making observations through small telescopes a lot ...