These new findings shed light on the warped, twisted shape of the galaxy's disk, researchers added. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy comprised of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a flat disk ...

The team released this visualization that shows radio sources from the new sky maps as an interactive 3D map. To check it out, first click on the link–then be patient as it may take a few ...

Our galaxy's Cepheid stars, superimposed onto a map of the Milky Way. Image Credit: Plot by J. Skowron / OGLE, Milky Way panorama by Serge Brunier That said, this galactic map quest is far from over.

Using cutting-edge 3D galaxy maps and an innovative approach called field-level inference (FLI), researchers are uncovering ...

Ultimately, Gaia will give us a moving, 3D model of our galaxy’s celestial choreography. With it, we can start to understand the physics underpinning this brilliant clump of gas and dust we call ...

Our solar system is located in an offshoot of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms, so we don't have a clear sense of what our galaxy looks like edge on.

3D map of bulge stars In a second study, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers reviewed images taken over more than a decade by the MPG/ESO 2.2 meter telescope in La Silla ...

Now two studies, one published in February in Nature Astronomy and the other, this week in Science, confirm that our galaxy has a distinctive snaky curvature thanks to new 3D maps of the Milky Way.

Macquarie University. (2019, February 4). First accurate 3D map of the Milky Way reveals a warped galaxy. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 17, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 02 ...

"Somewhat to our surprise, we found that in 3D our collection of 1,339 Cepheid stars and the Milky Way's gas disk follow each other closely. This offers new insights into the formation of our home ...

However, the calculating power required to statistically analyze this three-dimensional galaxy data is fiendish, and so, for ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...