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 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 ...
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 ...
Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...
After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy ... map many more stars and make a direct connection between star ...