Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

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Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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

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The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

Milky Way Crispy Rolls are returning to shelves following a three-year-long break, much to the delight of fans of the sweet ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It's a bright nebula that's visible in the northern sky.

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic ...