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"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...
A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...
Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of the Milky Way, but its observations will fuel discoveries for decades to ...
Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...
On March 27, ESA commanded Gaia to use its thrusters for the final time, pushing the spacecraft into a "retirement orbit" safely away from Earth and the scientifically important L2 orbit, which is ...
Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...
The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, has been deactivated and placed in a "retirement orbit" around the sun after mapping nearly two billion stars in the Milky Way.