However, it is now considered a dwarf planet instead. The universe has billions of galaxies, and our solar system is in the Milky Way Galaxy. The Milky Way contains at least 100 billion other ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Cepheid variables that he identified in our galaxy were the first rung ... Shapley determined that the Milky Way was 300,000 ...

The stunning red image of Tarantula Nebula was captured by NASA's Hubble Telescope. It is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy. This 100 million-year-old globular cluster ...

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

Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...

The ESA says Gaia has been mapping the positions, distances, movements, brightness changes, composition of stars in the Milky ...

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The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...