On July 1st, 2023 (Canada Day!), the ESA's Euclid mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, atop a SpaceX Falcon…
For over ten years, the ESA's Gaia Observatory has monitored the proper motion, luminosity, temperature, and composition of over a…
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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, named in honor of noted physicist Enrico Fermi, has been in operation for almost a…
A pair of new studies set to be published in The Astronomical Journal examine new discoveries in the field of…
A team from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) has revealed a new picture of the Milky Way's morphology.
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Astronomers know that galaxies grow over time through mergers with other galaxies. We can see it happening in our galaxy.…