Using cutting-edge 3D galaxy maps and an innovative approach called field-level inference (FLI), researchers are uncovering the intricate patterns of dark matter that govern the formation and ...

The findings, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal, suggest magnetic fields strongly impact star-forming regions which means they played a part in the creation of our own solar system. It might ...

The 3D map indicates where the cloud most muddies ... Gaia’s data helped scientists produce the best reconstructed view of our galaxy as it would appear to an outside observer in January ...

The European Space Agency mission, launched in July 2023, will create the largest and most accurate 3D map of the cosmos yet ... the delicate structure of a spiral galaxy in the cluster Abell ...

In a study, astronomers describe how they were able to map out the 3D shape of this huge galaxy, which turns out to be potato-shaped. Other galaxies come in different shapes, most commonly a flat ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia observatory is working not to look at one object but to get an overview of our entire galaxy. The idea is to use Gaia to create a 3D map of the Milky Way ...

"Astronomers rely on catalogs like these to extract and compress the information in images of the sky about the galaxy in which we ... "With this new survey, we can map the three-dimensional ...

China is commissioning a strangely-shaped telescope in the forested hills northeast of Beijing that Chinese scientists said will be the world's most efficient tool for mapping the galaxy in three ...

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...