VIRCAM managed to peer through the dust and gas that permeates our galaxy — it was therefore able to see the radiation from the Milky Way's usually hidden locations and painting a quite complete ...

"The Milky Way has changed so significantly since these ... we're filling the gaps and painting a fuller picture of not only our current home, but our earliest cosmic history." ...

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 ...