Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made ... the scientists monitored the central regions ...

That’s a whole lot of data, and it’s already being used to create some stunning visualizations of what the Milky Way looks ... at our home galaxy. Along with that sky map, the ESA also ...

the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. SEE ALSO: Bye, bye, Rosetta: The best moments from the spacecraft's historic mission The map is a full sky survey of the Milky Way, in the same way ...