The Hyades star cluster is gradually merging with the background of stars in the Milky Way. The cluster is located 153 light years away and…
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591 high velocity stars’ positions and orbits. Credit: Kong Xiao of NAOC A research team, led by astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy…
The stream of stars across the sky. Credit: ESA and Gaia DPAC The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when…
[embedded content] The stars are constantly moving across the sky. Known as proper motion, this motion is imperceptible to the unaided eye but is being…
Gaia’s stellar motion for the next 400 thousand years. The stars are in constant motion. To the human eye this movement – known as proper…
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution…
An artificial intelligence (AI) system analyzing data from the Gaia space telescope has identified more than 2,000 large protostars, young stars that are still forming…
This colour chart, superimposed on an artistic representation of the galaxy, shows the distribution of 150 million stars in the Milky Way probed using data…
This artist’s impression shows a computer generated model of the Milky Way and the accurate positions of the globular clusters used in this study surrounding…
Illustration of a white dwarf, the dead remnant of a star like our Sun, with a crystallised, solid core. White dwarfs are the remains of…