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Revolutionary Mapping. With the new data release, Gaia has tracked the positions and motions of the brightest two million stars in the Milky Way, smashing the 100,000-star mark set by Hipparcos ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

"Our new maps nicely demonstrate that the spiral structure in the gas disk of the Milky Way is highly flocculent, and that the overall structure of the disk is complex," Dr. Craig adds.

Researchers around the world spent four years gathering and combining telescope data that show how interstellar dust across 500 light-years of the Milky Way’s center interacts with the galaxy ...

The Lobster Nebula seen with ESO’s VISTA telescope ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way ...

A stunning new map of the magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center charts never-before-seen features, and raises new questions about how our galaxy's central engine works.

Three ways to map the Milky Way. In these three views, the Milky Way is seen in visible light (top), in gamma rays (middle) and in high-energy neutrinos (bottom).

From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in. For now, that map of the Milky Way is blurry and incomplete.

A new map of the Milky Way’s atomic hydrogen, anchored by precise distances to young Cepheid stars, reveals the galaxy’s gas disk is highly clumped and flocculent rather than smooth.