The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

Recently, they unveiled the most detailed infrared map ever created of the Milky Way, revealing over 1.5 billion objects hidden within our galaxy. The map was created using data collected by the ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

These “seeds” or stars were not full-fledged galaxies themselves, but instead the seeds that would later clump together to form our Milky Way galaxy, which would then grow as galaxies merged ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and ...