This is part of the first 3D map of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 200 thousand objects are included in the map, which was made up of images from a telescope in the Canary Islands that took ...
The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...
This is the kind of information used by Xiangyu Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), and Gregory Green, an independent research group leader (Sofia Kovalevskaja ...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented look at the boundaries for the giant ...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking ...