Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from ... the group used the VISTA's VIRCAM, a high-resolution infrared camera that can see stars ...

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

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 ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

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 ...

For reference, a low-resolution image ... of the plane of the Milky Way as seen from the southern hemisphere. The pin-sharp image of the busiest area of the galaxy was achieved by observing ...

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way ... The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal Science. The popular picture of the Milky Way as ...