Facts about Europe's star-mapping Gaia mission
The Gaia space telescope creates the most comprehensive map of the Milky Way, allowing astronomers to study our galaxy's distant past, as well as its future.
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The Gaia space telescope creates the most comprehensive map of the Milky Way, allowing astronomers to study our galaxy's distant past, as well as its future.
Unlike a traditional telescope, Gaia scans the entire sky repeatedly rather than just viewing one fascinating distant object at a time. Learn more about the data that it has gathered in this article.
Here are four scientific questions about our galaxy, the Milky Way, that astronomers hope to solve with the June 13 data dump from Europe's Gaia mission.
ABSTRACT. Transit observations have found the majority of exoplanets to date. Also spectroscopic observations of transits and eclipses are the most commonly use
While a lot about the Milky way galaxy remains unknown to us, recently astronomers have been able to discover a break in one of its arms. Astronomers have found ‘a contingent of young stars and star-forming gas clouds’ sticking out of the Sagittarius Arm of the galaxy, according to a new study published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal.