A view of the Milky Way galaxy in microwaves, captured by the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. The different colors correspond to different elements, including gas, dust, and energetic ...

The new map helped reveal more details on distortions that astronomers had previously detected in the shape of the Milky Way. Specifically, the galaxy's disk is not flat at distances greater than ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected. Even though the spiral arms of a galaxy ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European ...

A stunning new map of the magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center charts never-before-seen features, and raises new questions about how our galaxy's central engine works. When you purchase ...

The huge map has already helped changed our view of the galaxy in unexpected ways ... the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more than 13 years.

Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many ...

Our galaxy took shape ... Details of the Milky Way’s origin story are still fuzzy, and studying this ancient process is exceptionally tricky. But a new map of the galactic center and its ...

The Milky Way ... galaxy completely, according to their study published in the latest issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The research team was able to map ...