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.

Located around 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sagittarius ... and a revolutionary three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. "The project was a monumental effort, made possible ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our ... Nebula, a stellar nursery located about 5500 light ...

A new map of the Milky Way created by the ... the orbit was at a speed of 220 km/s. “Because Earth is located inside the Milky Way Galaxy, we can’t step back and see what the Galaxy looks ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy and has flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head ... 5 million kilometres ...