The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

From wobbles to new worlds Since its launch in 2013, ESA's Gaia spacecraft has been building the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy. Spinning slowly, it scanned the sky with ...

Our galaxy is not a calm, balanced spiral, spinning gently around itself. The Gaia data shows that the Milky ... asteroids in our Solar System, or to map 1.3 million quasars, the bright, active ...

The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have ...

The planet is the fourth world to be spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which was designed to map a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, cataloguing their masses ...

Gaia, launched in 2013, has been meticulously mapping the positions and motions of over two billion stars, creating the most precise 3D map of our galaxy ever made. Unlike traditional planet ...

The best Milky Way map, by Gaia: This is a new artist’s impression of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar Gaia has ...

Since its launch in 2013, Gaia has been dedicated to creating an accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. Using two high-precision optical telescopes, the spacecraft carefully records the ...

To attend the virtual shows, the Zoom software must be installed on the viewer’s computer. A free download is available at zoom.com. "The shows include the chance to chat with the planetarium ...