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The most precise 3-D map of our Milky Way galaxy has been revealed by astronomers. The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that&#821… ...

The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

1.6 billion stars. 11.4 million galaxies. 158,000 asteroids. One spacecraft. The European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory, which launched in 2013, has long surpassed its goal of charting ...

The map shows the total brightness and color of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite between July 2014 and May 2016. Photo by ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research. Astronomers found the ancient stellar remnants when they mapped ...

The Milky Way's center, seen as a white area right of center, is a chaotic and mysterious place holding a massive black hole. Powerful bursts of X-rays emanating from the region might be coming ...

Their end goal exists far outside the Milky Way, however. They also want to use Gaia as a roadmap to find more than 500,000 quasars , or supermassive black holes surrounded by gas and dust.

This map of the cosmos shows roughly 800 million stars in the neighborhood of the Milky Way. It compiles four years' worth of data from the Pan-STARRS observatory in Maui, Hawaii. (R.

Gaia's all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. ESA/Gaia/DPAC In 2016, the European Space Agency released the first data ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.