The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images ... stellar-mass black holes and six free-floating "rogue planets," that aren't orbiting parent stars.

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning ... globular clusters, stars, planets, brown dwarfs, and other objects that make up our ...

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

From the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core, these new images show the Milky Way as you've never ... stars, and planets and covers an area of sky ...

Skowron / OGLE / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw) (CN) – The Milky Way galaxy is home to countless stars, planets, and other celestial ... they could develop a three-dimensional map of ...

This dust forms the building blocks of stars, planets, and ... observations previously made of the heart of the Milky Way. Where this new map, however, really comes into its own is the sheer ...

It's simply to "create the most accurate and complete multidimensional map of the Milky ... Milky Way survey to date." In this dataset, not only can you see thousands of solar system objects ...

For now, that map of the Milky Way is blurry and incomplete. But as more data is gathered, it will become clearer and will help illuminate galactic convulsions like the expanding remnants of ...

and the resulting heat and pressure slowly transformed them into stars and planets ... or something like that. Details of the Milky Way’s origin story are still fuzzy, and studying this ancient ...

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 : ...