New Milky Way map reveals the magnificent messiness of our galaxy. News. By Paul Sutter published 7 June 2023 From a distance, our galaxy would be beautiful, if a bit messy. Comments (1) ...

"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.

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

The map revealed that the Milky Way is being warped by its stars at distances more than 25,000 light-years from its center. “Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat.

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 ...

That's because astronomers have recently released a new and more detailed catalog of the Milky Way, called DECaPS2, which includes 3.32 billion celestial objects. Yes, you read that right: 3.32 ...

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).

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 team’s map reveals previously invisible details in a stretch of the central Milky Way 500 light-years wide. The colors represent different temperatures of interstellar dust: Green indicates ...

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

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.