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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

As they continued to map the stellar velocities and the position of the M87 stars, the astronomers created a 3D view of the elliptical galaxy. This map, together with the new estimation of M87*'s ...

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 ...

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

The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope aims to create the largest 3D map of the universe in the next six years. The observatory just completed the first piece.