This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

The bright core of the Milky Way — the biggest and best sight at night — becomes visible in June in the Northern Hemisphere.

The infrared map of the Milky Way contains more than 1.5 billion objects. ESO/VVVX SURVEY VIA SWNS. At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the telescope’s main purpose is to map large sky areas.

The team started making the map in 2010 and finished taking images for it in 2023. Over that 13-year span, astronomers took over 200,000 images across 420 nights to map as much of the Milky Way as ...

And so ends our summer Milky Way road trip. But there’s lots more to see. You’ll just have to head out again another time, with a good star map or your favorite planetarium app, and take your ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

The telescope can detect and translate this energy into a visual image, creating the pictures that we see. The map is ... of the largest infrared map of the Milky Way is a remarkable ...

With summer soon approaching, the Milky Way will become more visible in May, especially as the new moon makes the skies dark over Memorial Day weekend. Here's when and how to catch a glimpse of ...

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 : ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years.