ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
Hubble captures barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
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ESA spacecraft creating '3D map of the Milky Way' to be shut down
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft will end its observations ... and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky ...
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Nuclear discs as clocks for the assembly history of early-type galaxies: the case of NGC 4458
We use VIsible MultiObject Spectrograph integral-field spectroscopic observations for the intermediate-mass E0 galaxy NGC 4458 and age-date its nuclear disc via high-resolution fitting of various ...