Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy. If viewed from the side, the spiral ...

On 25 April, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission published its first fully 3D map of the Milky Way. The data haul includes the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars, and the distances ...

that astronomers must map out the Galaxy’s structure. By the mid-twentieth century, they had painted a broad-brush picture, determining that the Milky Way’s stars are distributed in a central ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The ...

Within minutes of the release, ESA unveiled updated three-dimensional maps of the Milky Way and unleashed a deluge of new information on the billions of stars around us—what they’re made of ...

Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how ...

Europe's Gaia mission has mapped billions of stars, planets and asteroids ... mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way" and in the process reveal the composition ...

From the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries ... standard for studying the southern Milky Way in decades to come.' The new map's biggest advantage is that it allows astronomers ...

"With this new survey, we can map the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way's stars and dust in unprecedented detail." In an email to Salon, Saydjari said the catalog will be an incredibly ...

For now, that map of the Milky Way is blurry and incomplete ... galactic convulsions like the expanding remnants of exploded stars, providing clues to mysteries that are difficult to solve ...

Europe's Gaia mission has mapped billions of stars, planets and asteroids in our galaxy but the job is far from ... ESA describes Gaia as an "ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our ...