The image is being combined with those from other survey telescopes—such as PanSTARRS 1—to produce a 360º panoramic view of the Milky Way’s disk. “With this new survey, we can map the ...

Living inside the Milky Way gives us a close-up view of its structure and contents ... motions for massive star-forming regions in the disk of the Milky Way in order to map out its spiral structure ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy ... The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal Science. The popular picture of the Milky Way as a flat disc is ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collection of 100,000 galaxies to a 12th-century ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

Its aluminum cover is engraved with instructions, and a unique galactic map. Astronomer and astrophysicist ... a course to our little corner of the Milky Way. And as if this interstellar roadmap ...

The results are in line with theory — but the key to an accurate measurement was understanding how dusty the galaxy is.

A new study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy and its neighboring Andromeda galaxy are already interacting, long before ...

The Love’s Planetarium, which opened Friday, is the only one of its caliber in North America. With its eight 4K projectors ...

Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...

Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of the stars in the Milky Way. The researchers ... contribute to sharpen our view on the early years of our Galaxy ...