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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
Recently, a team of astronomers made an extraordinary discovery: a new giant radio galaxy (GRG) named Inkathazo, detected ...
After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and ...
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...