Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap ... originating from our position in the central plane of the Milky Way's disk. Our location limits the volume of potentially ...

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets ... them above and below that main plane. Most of the stars in the thin ...

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 ...

I began photographing the Milky Way around 2018 ... Hidden treasures reside along the plane of the northern galactic bulge, ranging from Scorpius to Serpens Cauda. (Serpens Cauda is a lesser ...