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 ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal ... discovered by the OGLE survey "Our results show that the Milky Way Galaxy is not flat. It is warped and twisted far away from ...