Three weeks before Christmas, astronomers are opening one of their presents early. Inside is a most welcome gift—a vast catalogue of more than a billion stars in and around our galaxy, the most ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of the cosmic woods. Reading time 3 minutes The European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

This time, astronomers will see all the way to the Milky Way's edge. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European Space Agency's ...

The Gaia space probe on Monday unveiled its latest discoveries in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two million stars and revealing mysterious "starquakes" which ...

There are nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy. At least that's what the most current map shows. Astronomers have mapped the most extensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy yet, including the positions ...

The most comprehensive picture of the Milky Way galaxy just got even more detailed, as ESA’s Gaia mission has unveiled its third data release. The new dataset updates information on almost two billion ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the most detailed catalog of our galaxy, using data from the Gaia mission launched in 2013. This three-dimensional map shows the locations of more than 1.8 ...

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The ESA's Gaia is a spacecraft that looks at billions of stars, and it brings more of the many discoveries in deep space, and it will help in mapping more of the Milky Way's region. The new mission ...

The ESA's Gaia spacecraft has been studying the Milky Way for several years, and now the second major dataset from Gaia has pinpointed the position and brightness of a whopping 1.7 billion stars in ...

At least that's what the most current map shows. Astronomers have mapped the most extensive atlas of our Milky Way galaxy yet, including the positions of each and every one of those stars. The ...