The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the map -- and it's absolutely massive.

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Fortunately, this monster is a long, long way away - some 26,000 light-years ... It's their second such image after releasing in 2019 a picture of the giant black hole at the heart of another ...

The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole ... insight into the swirling mass that sits at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. The image famously showed a doughnut-shaped ring with ...

"I love photographing the Milky Way, but it's a tricky subject in the sense that there are many pictures of it out there, and it can be hard to come up with a novel way to portray it," Muñoz ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark ... paints a slightly different picture of what the black hole, located about 26,000 light-years ...

What is fascinating to me here is that we see that the Milky ... providing a clearer picture of how the Milky Way’s magnetic ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.

Finnish astrophotographer, JP Metsavainio, took on the daunting task of creating a mosaic of the Milky Way back in 2009. It took him twelve years to get the whole picture which is around 100,000 ...

let alone the Milky Way. The arc of our galaxy—visible right now straight after dark from places with no light pollution, such as Dark Sky Places—features prominently in the winning images ...

The Milky Way galaxy, in which we live ... It is hoped that a more reliable picture of Sagittarius A* will emerge from active discussion by researchers based on improved analysis methods and ...