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 ...

The most detailed infrared map of ... 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 stellar age scale, the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

If you hold your thumb out at arm's length ... in the Milky Way from measurements of the galaxy's mass. But how do you ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head. After more than a ...