The results can be used to develop new simulations and models to continue to map the history and development of the Milky Way. Through an increased knowledge of the white dwarfs, the researchers ...

You can swoop through the map and set it to show different characteristics of the Milky Way on the Planck website here. "The cosmic microwave background light is a traveler from far away and long ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite was able to map the Milky Way in infrared light using an instrument called the Diffuse IR Background ...

It’s called the APEX telescope, and it’s the not-so-secret weapon of an ambitious project to map all of the Milky Way’s cold gas ... were taken by APEX, the background blue portions ...

Astronomers have published a breathtaking map of the Milky Way. Using special telescopes, the team from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) photographed the sky for over 13 years. The result ...

In order to filter out the background of muons and neutrinos ... neutrinos detected over 10 years to create the ghostly map of the Milky Way, 30 times as much as the data used in a previous ...

Details of the Milky Way’s origin story are still fuzzy, and studying this ancient process is exceptionally tricky. But a new map of the galactic ... crafted the colorful background using ...

The map includes suggestions of specific high-energy neutrino sources within the Milky Way that might be the ... hundreds of thousands of meaningless, background events that IceCube has collected.

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have ...

But only recently have they been able to completely focus on the white dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood. Illustration of Gaia with the Milky Way in the background (Image: ESA/ATG Medialab, ESO/S.