The team started making the map in 2010 and finished taking images for it in 2023. Over that 13-year span, astronomers took over 200,000 images across 420 nights to map as much of the Milky Way as ...

The map revealed that the Milky Way is being warped by its stars at distances more than 25,000 light-years from its center. “Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

These findings helped the astronomers build a large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way. This is the first such map based on directly measured distances to thousands of celestial landmarks across the ...

Using two of the world’s largest configurable telescopes, scientists have created the most detailed map yet of hydrogen atoms the Milky Way. It’s called the HI4PI map, and it was produced ...

The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21 cm radiation.

Detailed map of dust in the Milky Way Date: March 13, 2025 Source: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Summary: Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic ...

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 ...

The Biggest Map of the Milky Way Ever Created Is Here Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 images.