A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip.This new picture of the galactic disk — the central region of the ...

A large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way shows its warped shape with a new level of detail and accuracy.; Researchers measured the distances between our sun and 2,400 stars to map their three ...

The Milky Way's disk of stars becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from its center, according to astronomers who have built the first accurate 3D map of Earth's home galaxy.

When ancient stargazers looked up at the Milky Way, some saw spilt milk or a river flowing across the sky.Others saw a trail of hay, or a flock of birds. No one spotted the pinwheel. It’s hard ...

It's our galactic home, but the Milky Way contains many mysteries scientists are working to unravel. Now, as The Guardian reports, astronomers at the European Space Agency have built a 3D map that ...

A new 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy shows the dust that permeates the galaxy in great detail. Astronomers mapped the dust between stars in the Milky Way to create the colorful image, which covers ...

The best 3D map yet of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a tasty surprise: the heart of our galaxy looks like a cosmic peanut. Two international teams of astronomers discovered the ...

Now two studies, one published in February in Nature Astronomy and the other, this week in Science, confirm that our galaxy has a distinctive snaky curvature thanks to new 3D maps of the Milky Way.

Conventional wisdom has long held that the Milky Way was a flat disk of stars and gas, with a bulge in the middle. But now astronomers have created a more accurate 3D map of the galaxy and found ...

The map includes almost 2 billion stars and it helps the agency trace the Milky Way's history. "The new Gaia data promise to be a treasure trove for astronomers," Jos de Bruijne, ESA's Gaia deputy ...

A new, incredibly detailed 3D map of the Milky Way has revealed that its central disk is wavy, much like an enormous potato chip. This new picture of the galactic disk — the central region of ...

The new stellar distance database allowed scientists to build a detailed 3D map of the Milky Way's gas disk. Cepheids are big and bright young stars. They live fast and die young.