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Stars group together to form a bright band in the middle of the image, Gaia's first map of the sky

Space

Gaia鈥檚 map of 1 billion stars is the clearest view of our galaxy

The first data released from the European Space Agency鈥檚 star mapping space telescope will transform astronomy forever, expanding our view 1000-fold

A field of bright dots

Space

Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy鈥檚 heart

Galaxies

Space

Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars

The galaxy M82

Space

Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years

Space

The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars

Space

Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way

Artists impression of the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream

Space

Torn-apart galaxy may be exacting revenge on the Milky Way

Distant galaxies imaged by Hubble

Space

Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies

Space

Milky Way鈥檚 bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling

Artist's impression of the satellite

Space

Doomed Japanese satellite glimpsed galactic wind before it died

The Hitomi spacecraft only lasted a few weeks in space, but still managed to map gusts of plasma flowing in the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Physics

Nearly naked black hole lost its ‘clothes’ to a gravity rip tide

Space

Your explosive guide to the end of the universe

Space

Tadpole galaxy spawns stars after eating invisible gas cloud

Space

See a cosmic spider as it entices a nearby galaxy