We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms. By that metric, the ESA’s Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us ...
This image shows the polarized view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.  ...
Every single star you can see is part of the Milky Way, but we’re talking here about seeing the densest part—that diffuse, “milky” glow of billions of stars. Our satellite is the biggest ...
"Many people don't know what conditions to look for and what time of the month that they're able to see the Milky Way with their naked eye," he said. To capture the video's stunning visuals ...
Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy. Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars ...