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A team used the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope to create the most detailed infrared map of the universe ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

While spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are flat, the most ancient galaxies in the early universe seen by astronomers ... and the Chinese Space Station, to map the stars within the ancient ...