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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...
Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...
After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision ... Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and ...
It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured ... the two galaxies will continue to draw in on each other.