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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 ...

ESS1.A: The Universe and Its Stars Earth and its solar system are part of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is one of the many galaxies ... of the measured composition of stars and non-stellar gasses, and ...

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 ...