Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC We now have the most detailed catalogue of stars in our Milky Way galaxy yet. The new map -- created using data collected by the Gaia satellite -- shows about 1.7 billion ...

A new survey of the Milky Way has unveiled billions of celestial objects in our galaxy’s plane. The survey was taken using the Dark Energy Camera, which the US Department of Energy built ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century ... William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae ...

This interior view of the Milky Way galaxy is the only one that Earthbound humans will ever see. Credit: Mint Images/Shutterstock We may never leave our Milky Way galaxy and see it from the ...