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  1. Finding Order in the Chaos of the Cosmos

    May 23, 2023
    Flatiron Institute astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan studies the chaotic motions of stars in the Milky Way. His mission? To search for one of the universe’s best-kept …

  2. Flatiron Institute Partners With the European Space Agency for Latest Gaia Data Release

    June 13, 2022
    … galaxy’s structure and evolution over billions of years to better understand the life cycle of stars and our place in the universe. DR3 includes new information …

  3. Astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan Receives Blavatnik Regional Award for Young Scientists

    September 23, 2020
    The Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences have named computational astrophysicist Adrian Price-Whelan as the winner of the 2020 Blavatnik Regional Award for …

  4. The Milky Way’s Impending Galactic Collision Is Already Birthing New Stars

    January 7, 2020
    Newborn stars on the outskirts of our galaxy probably formed from material from two dwarf galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds.

  5. A Stellar Stream in the Milky Way Provides Evidence of Dark Substructure

    July 29, 2019
    Scientists observe unexplained behavior in the GD-1 stellar stream, begin search for clumps of dark matter in the Milky Way.

  6. Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success

    September 24, 2018
    Thanks to the Gaia team’s immediate release of all its Milky Way measurements, data sprints at the Flatiron Institute quickly uncovered new discoveries

  7. A Star That Devoured Its Own Planets

    October 12, 2017
    Astrophysicists estimate that the sunlike star called Kronos has consumed 15 Earths’ worth of rocky material