Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from ... Specifically, the group used the VISTA's VIRCAM, a high-resolution infrared camera that ...

Imagine a group photo of over three billion ... "With this new survey, we can map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way's stars and dust in unprecedented detail." In an email to Salon ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral ... fit locations of the spiral arms in our local vicinity and extend them, reconstructing ...

This map shows the circle of the cosmos that ... around 26,500 light years from the centre. The Milky Way resides in the Local Group of galaxies. About 2.5 million light years away is our closest ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning ... which is a very dense group of old stars. ESO/VVVX survey The full dataset is available ...

Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home ... Cepheids [as a group] are relatively ...

You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo ... help provide a more precise map of the largest structures in the universe. One group, led by astronomer R.

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever ... Astronomy (VISTA) at the group’s Paranal Observatory ...

Years ago, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile, started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way. The goal was to ...