The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

The results allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the first detailed, three-dimensional map of the extinction curve of dust in the Milky Way. This map was made possible by Zhang and Green's ...

The results allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the first detailed, three-dimensional map of the extinction curve of dust in the Milky Way. This map was made possible by Zhang and Green’s ...

Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy. Science , 2025; 387 (6739): 1209 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado9787 Cite This Page : ...

All good things come to an end—even the Milky Way. Our home galaxy’s demise isn’t estimated to occur for at least another 4 or 5 billion years, when astronomers believe it will start ...