Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from ... the group used the VISTA's VIRCAM, a high-resolution infrared camera that can see stars ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms ... observations of three kinds of objects: high-mass star-forming regions, bright ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European ...

The most comprehensive picture of the Milky Way galaxy just got even more ... was performed in low resolution for 470 million stars, and in high resolution for 5.6 million stars.

Scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have used 60,000 neutrinos to create the first map of the Milky Way ... resolution, potentially revealing hidden features of our galaxy never before ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy ... a way around that limitation: For 1% of their chosen stars, there is high-resolution ...

By Kenneth Chang From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy ... the Milky Way across the spectrum of light, from radio waves to ultra-high-energy ...

The Milky Way ... galaxy completely, according to their study published in the latest issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The research team was able to map ...

Our galaxy took shape more than 13 billion years ago, when clouds of cosmic dust collapsed from their own gravitational pull, and the resulting heat and pressure slowly transformed them into stars ...

The billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant in May 2025. Here's how to ...