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This 360-degree panoramic image, the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, shows the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy edge-on from the perspective on Earth. (Wikipedia/ESO/S. Brunier/CC BY 4.0)
January 30, 2017, 6:01 pm
Our galaxy’s dash through space seen as tale of attraction and repulsion
Meet the Dipole Repeller, a large, low-density region that a Hebrew U-led team of researchers says helps explain the Milky Way’s motion
By Shoshanna Solomon
This 360-degree panoramic image, the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, shows the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy edge-on from the perspective on Earth. (Wikipedia/ESO/S. Brunier/CC BY 4.0)
October 20, 2016, 7:11 am
Vast new Milky Way map to reveal how galaxies form
Most detailed hydrogen map ever shows for first time the fine details of structures between stars
By AFP
An illustrative photograph of galaxy NGC 6744, said to closely resemble the Milky Way. (CC BY, ESO/Wikimedia)
October 14, 2016, 2:12 am
Universe has 20 times more galaxies than thought
Surprising discovery by Hubble Space Telescope is based on 3D modelling of images collected over 20 years
By AFP
Artist's rendition of Gaia in space (photo credit: courtesy)
December 19, 2013, 11:17 am
‘Hundreds of thousands of planets on verge of discovery’
Israeli scientist Shay Zucker, working with European Space Agency scientists, sees Thursday’s launch of the Gaia satellite as a turning point in knowledge of space
By David Shamah
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