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They traced the speedy stars' trajectories, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, as a way of ...

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The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

They traced the speedy stars' trajectories, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope, as a way of figuring out where the stars came from. The common wisdom, he says ...