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 ...

each milestone has revealed new layers of the galaxy's complex structure and motion. While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way. Measuring ... resolution spectral age maps ever made for GRGs.

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...

Astronomers have improved their estimate of the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy by studying the movements ... Gaia mission aims to create a 3D map of Milky Way and to provide details about its ...

On a clear, dark night, the Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the naked eye as a faint, fuzzy patch in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy has a complex ... with the Milky Way ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31). It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear ...