The map, which Ménard assembled with the help of former Johns Hopkins computer science student Nikita Shtarkman, visualizes a slice of the universe, or about 200,000 galaxies—each dot on the map is a ...

A new interactive panoramic lets you a take a full 360° tour of our galaxy — complete with a few stops along the way. It's the work of NASA's Spitzer ...

That study looked at 1,339 Cepheids and created one of the most comprehensive 3D maps of the Milky Way, which showed that our home galaxy is twisted at its edges.

The map (top) is made up of several different views of the Milky Way: Dust Glow (upper left); Carbon Monoxide Gas (upper right); Carbon Monoxide Gas (upper right); and Magnetic Fields (lower right).

Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University created a new map, which shows the sweeping view of the cosmos from the Milky Way galaxy to the edge of the visible universe.. The interactive map has the ...

The most precise 3-D map of our Milky Way galaxy has been revealed by astronomers. The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that’s been ...

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. Skip to main content.

It's the so-called "Milky Way season" in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about viewing the galaxy ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers around the world spent four years gathering and combining telescope data that show how interstellar dust across 500 light-years of the Milky Way’s center interacts with the galaxy ...