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 ...

It is a panoramic ... stars and unusual features like coherent streams of stars, researchers say. This implies it has a more active recent star formation and interaction history than the Milky Way.

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

An artist's impression of the Milky Way ... billion stars and other objects in our galaxy. The result of the spacecraft’s endeavors is nothing less than the largest, most precise map of our ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of data collection. The spacecraft shut down its science operations on January 15 ...

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. After more than a ...