Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

21 cm radiation is a powerful tool in the field of astronomy that allows astronomers to map the structure of our Milky Way galaxy, understand its rotation, and even estimate the masses of distant ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

So Gaia is a spacecraft that was launched by the European Space Agency way back in December of 2013. And it was on a mission to create the best, biggest, most accurate map of the Milky Way ever.

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century ... William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae ...

Dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way, for example ... the dwarf galaxies should approach the dark matter halo — within which a large galaxy is growing from all angles — and therefore swarm ...

Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way ... whose purpose is to map millions of stars ...