Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

Astronomers have released a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects. This is the most detailed map ever produced to date. Using the VISTA telescope at the ...

Astronomers have published an infrared map of the Milky Way that is considered the most detailed one of its kind. Researchers used the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope in Chile.

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

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 ...

The first fragment captures approximately 100 million celestial sources, including stars within our Milky Way and distant ...

Scientists assembled the first piece of the map, which includes 208 gigapixels, from 260 observations made between March 25 ...

27 in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers analyzed the relative movements of more than 56,000 galaxies to create a 3D "probabilistic" map of all the BOAs surrounding the Milky Way.

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...