Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey ... “The completion of the largest infrared map of the Milky Way is a remarkable achievement for the astronomy ...

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 ...

In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...

The VISTA telescope (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope ... One important part of the data is a more accurate map of the inner region of the Milky Way, which is often obscured by dust and ...

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

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

southern Alberta, on June 30, 2019. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) What time of night is the Milky Way visible? This is the real beauty of going looking for ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

The blurry, extraordinary image is of the Milky Way, but it is composed of the "ghostly ... "This is the first 'map' of our Galaxy in something [other than light], and it's in high-energy ...