Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many ...

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most ...

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 ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

The pin-sharp image of the busiest area of the galaxy was achieved ... a 360º panoramic view of the Milky Way’s disk. “With this new survey, we can map the three-dimensional structure of ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made ... the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more than 13 years. Dante Minniti, an ...