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In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

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

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better ... and edited ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...