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A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft concludes its 12-year mission to map the Milky Way, leaving behind a legacy of ...

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And then it's not just the Aurora that's at its best, but the stars are just breathtaking," she said. "You can see the Milky Way, and it's just this rainbow of dust and glitter across the sky." ...

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last 12 years, shut down science operations on Wednesday (Jan. 15). The close of the mission's data-collecting phase was necessitated by ...