This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire ... International Year of Astronomy 2009. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth ...

Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap in the number of stars ... Rediscovering the Milky Way with orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data III. Panoramic view of ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our ... such as “failed” stars called brown dwarfs ...

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

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way ... massive stars falling below Hubble's sensitivity limit. Video tour of Hubble’s panoramic view ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing "break" in a stream of stars around the Milky Way could be the result of ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Night has fallen for the star-tracking European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft, Gaia. The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way for the last ... and most precise 3D map of our local universe.

the researchers virtually rewound time to see how and when those early stars were born during the Milky Way’s growth. They used this timeline to create the first digital map of what is ...