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

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A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky throughout January. Six planets will be in alignment for the rest of the ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

The ESA will passivate Gaia on 27 March 2025, the one-of-a-kind observatory craft that unravelled many of the Milky Way's ...

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