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 Southern ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed ever made. The team monitored the central regions of our galaxy ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

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The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia mission is creating the most detailed map ever of our galaxy, the Milky Way. In December 2020, it delivered the position, brightness, color, and proper motion of ...

There's a galaxy's worth of data here. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The most detailed map of the Milky Way is still being ...

Building on eight years of extraordinary discoveries by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS and SDSS-II), a new program of four coordinated surveys will revolutionize the study of the distant universe, ...

This week in space we've got some beautiful maps of both the galaxy and NASA's next asteroid target, 16 Psyche. The James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready to science and there's a planetary ...

Every 200 million years, high-energy comets may pelt our planet as it passes through our galaxy's spiral arms. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...