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

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.

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

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

"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...

A stunning peek into the deep mysteries of our universe is giving astronomers and stargazers alike just a sliver of what’s to ...

A trio of Japanese astronomers has challenged the accuracy of the first-ever image showing the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy ... of the Milky Way—shows a dark ...

7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed ... ESO Telescope Captures the Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever of Our Milky Way Sep.

A new 208-gigapixel cosmic map, capturing 132 square degrees of the Southern Sky, was unveiled, marking the start of a ...

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way... challenges our understanding of how quickly galaxies in the early Universe evolve,” noted Lucie Rowland, the study's lead author ...

Now, with the help of the Caltech-built Keck Cosmic Web Imager at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawai‘i Island, ...