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On March 27, mission controllers at ESA’s European Space Operations Center (ESOC) powered down Gaia for the last time, sending the spacecraft into a carefully planned solar orbit that will keep it far ...
Gaia has been peering into the universe from a stable orbit 1.5 million kilometers (930,000 miles) from Earth called the second Lagrange point. But the neighborhood has been getting more crowded ...
But its legacy lives on. Rendering of the Gaia telescope in space.Credit...ESA/ATG medialab; ESO, via S. Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white ...
Box Office: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman’s The Roses sets late summer release; Revisiting the original War of the Roses' theatrical run Why Did Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Receive ...
Miley Cyrus has finally announced a release date for her next album, Something Beautiful, set to arrive May 30 via Columbia Records. Along with sharing the title and release date, Cyrus revealed ...
Nyx is the ancient Greek goddess who represents night. Unlike her sister, Eos, the goddess of the Dawn, who appears often throughout Greek mythology and later Western literary works, Nyx is a ...
This slice of the DESI data maps celestial objects from Earth (center) to billions of light years away. Among the objects are nearby bright galaxies (yellow), luminous red galaxies (orange), ...
But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.
Nestled on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, Split is the largest city on Croatia's coastline, home to a host of beautiful beaches that are a magnet for sun-seekers worldwide. The Times even ...