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2.5-Billion-Pixel Andromeda Galaxy Panorama Worth The Decade Of Hubble Observations

IFL Science 17 Jan 2025
A large number, but still a tiny fraction of the galaxy’s total stellar population ... Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the Milky Way, Hubble spotted the hallmarks of a past collision.
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The Most Accurate View of the Milky Way

Universe Today 16 Jan 2025
Gaia is a tribute to ingenuity ... While many prior efforts to trace the Milky Way’s structure depended on sampling select stellar populations, Gaia precisely measured the position and motion of almost two billion stars throughout the galaxy.
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RIP Gaia: Revolutionary Mission That Mapped The Galaxy To Come To An End This Week

IFL Science 13 Jan 2025
"With the two remaining major data releases, Gaia will continue to have a transformative impact on the study of the Milky Way, on our understanding of stellar formation and evolution, and on the ...
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Winger Forbes happy to be back in Canada, with the NSL's Ottawa Rapid FC

TSN Canada 08 Jan 2025
Plus she believes in the new domestic women's pro league, which kicks off in April ... Another lesson learned ... Benati also had stints with Portugal's Valadares Gaia and Norway's Medkila after a stellar collegiate career at the University of Buffalo ... ---.
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Winger Melanie Forbes happy to be back in Canada, with the NSL's Ottawa Rapid FC

North Shore News 07 Jan 2025
Plus she believes in the new domestic women's pro league, which kicks off in April ... Another lesson learned ... Benati also had stints with Portugal's Valadares Gaia and Norway's Medkila after a stellar collegiate career at the University of Buffalo ... --- ... .
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Hotter White Dwarfs Get Puffier

Universe Today 31 Dec 2024
They are a common aspect of stellar evolution and a team of researchers have now turned their attention onto them ... At its core is the fact that these stellar corpses are composed of material far heavier than normal matter ... ESA/Gaia/DPAC).
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Giant Cluster is Spitting Out Massive Stars

Universe Today 16 Oct 2024
This was exactly what the team of astronomers observed using Gaia. The Gaia space observatory was launched back in 2013 by the European Space Agency and has been precisely mapping stellar positions since.
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A sharper view of the Milky Way with Gaia and machine learning

Phys Dot Org 10 Oct 2024
In the study, researchers explored the use of machine learning to estimate key stellar properties using Gaia's spectrophotometric data ... astrometric data, as well as the Gaia low-resolution XP spectra.
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The Open Star Cluster Westerlund 1, Seen by Webb

Universe Today 08 Oct 2024
The Webb view reveals the full range of stars in Westerlund 1, making it easier to spot the various stellar types ... Its age makes it an infant in stellar “years” and many of its massive, giant-type stars have short lifetimes.
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Gaia Finds Hundreds of Asteroid Moons

Universe Today 10 Aug 2024
The amazing Gaia mission to chart stars in the Milky Way Galaxy is also an expert asteroid hunter ... Thanks to precise astronometric measurements made by Gaia and other instruments, astronomers can detect the minute shifts in stellar positions.
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Astronomers discover new supergiant-rich stellar cluster

Phys Dot Org 06 Aug 2024
Astronomers report the discovery of a new galactic stellar cluster located some 24,000 light years away ... He was scanning the plane of the Milky Way using multi-wavelength surveys and looking for stellar clustering, possibly associated with warm dust.
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Discovery of ancient stars on the stellar thin disk of the Milky Way

Phys Dot Org 31 Jul 2024
A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of ancient stars on orbits similar to that of our sun ... The results were made possible by the third data release of the Gaia mission.
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Hubble finds evidence for rare black hole in Omega Centauri

Phys Dot Org 12 Jul 2024
"Even after 30 years, the Hubble Space Telescope with its imaging instruments is still one of the best tools for high-precision astrometry in crowded stellar fields, regions where Hubble can provide ...
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European astronomers have discovered objects hidden in space near eight bright stars

The Cleveland American 28 Jun 2024
In the Gaia catalog of stellar orbits, the team identified eight stars to target GRAVITY, advanced near-infrared interferometer From the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, Cerro Paranal, Chile ... Gaia observes the Milky Way.
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You may see one more star up in the night sky soon, only this one ...

Federal News Radio 27 Jun 2024
And it turns out that until about 2016, about eight years ago, we only knew very precise measurements of the distances to stars from the prior to the Gaia mission, we only knew about 250,000 stellar distances.

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