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 ... don’t orbit a star. Both objects glow ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass ... Imagine that for every star we observe, there is ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky ... of the spiral arms of the Milky Way and just so happens to be one of the most massive young star clusters in our galaxy. On the opposite end of ...

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 ... the distance of a cepheid star with an accuracy of more ...

Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last ... and most precise 3D map of our local universe.

Comparison of simulation of three main star forming episodes in the spiral ... between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast structure in our galaxy ... map of interstellar matter in the Milky Way. The results correct a previous view of this region of the Milky Way. Many of the star ...