The first large-scale age-map of the Milky Way shows that a period of star formation lasting around 4 billion years created the complex structure at the heart of our galaxy. The first large-scale ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing ... stars and objects can be seen that way. The map is too large and too detailed to post.

These findings helped the astronomers build a large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way. This is the first such map based on directly measured distances to thousands of celestial landmarks across the ...

The image of the Milky Way is so large that a video scroll across the ... that is just tens of degrees above absolute zero. The new map of the galaxy is a long and narrow strip along the galactic ...

An international team of astronomers have released the first large-scale map of the ages of various components at the center of the Milky Way and have established that the core of our galaxy was ...

For the first time, astronomers have created a new map of the Milky Way using young stars to chart the galaxy’s gas structure ...

In February, a Nature study also measured Cepheids to create a 3D map of the Milky Way to show how it was warping and twisting. Using 1,339 large, pulsating stars to compile a 3D map of the Milky ...

The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning ... that are bigger than planets but not large enough to sustain fusion and become full ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is ... which can exert massive gravitational effects across large regions of space without being visible.

The project is known as FIREPLACE, for Far-InfraRed Polarimetric Large Area CMZ Exploration. The team’s map reveals previously invisible details in a stretch of the central Milky Way 500 light ...