This new map of the Milky Way contains 10 times more objects ... 500 terabytes of data - roughly equivalent to 124,000 high-definition movies. Images released by the researchers reveal bright ...

Our solar system resides in a galaxy called the Milky Way, stuffed with between 100 billion and 400 billion other stars, many of them with planets of their own. The Milky Way got its name from the ...

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 ...