A 13-year survey conducted by the VISTA telescope has resulted in the creation of the most detailed Milky Way map ever. It ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic map of the Milky Way, unveiling discoveries that have changed their view of the galaxy ...

Is the Milky Way galaxy, our cosmic home, truly unique? A group of scientists set out to explore this question over a decade ...

The European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope has collected more than 500 terabytes of data on our galaxy.

Observations were made for 13 years, resulting in a data set of 500 terabytes. The mega-project has now come to an end. But ...

More information: Yao-Yuan Mao et al, The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies, arXiv (2024).DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.14498 Marla Geha et al, The SAGA ...

Astronomers have published a breathtaking map of the Milky Way. Using special telescopes, the team from the European Southern ...

Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive infrared map of the Milky Way to date, revealing more than 1.5 billion ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made. The huge map has already helped changed our ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most ...