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The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut down its communication systems and central computer and said goodbye to this ...
'200,000 light-years away': ESA’s Gaia Telescope discovers one galaxy tearing apart another near the Milky Way
A recent study has shown that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy approximately 200,000 light-years from ...
Astronomy professor offers new theory on universe's star formation
The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...
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Astronomers are shocked to find our galaxy's nearest neighbor is being torn to shreds
An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...