Our galaxy is filled with hundreds of billions of stars, but plotting where they are in relation to one another is a cosmic cartographical undertaking. But a new study in Science this week uses an old reliable method for building a 3D map of our half of the Milky Way. A team from the...
ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013to make the most precise 3D map of stars in the Milky Way, as well as a map of its neighbors' stars – the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Earlier this year, ESA scientists unveiled Gaia's first billion-star map of the Milky Way. On Thursday...
The Euclid Space Telescope has revealed the "first page" of the cosmic atlas it is building. The section of the map of the cosmos being built by Euclid was released on Monday (Oct. 15), and it features tens of millions of stars within the Milky Way and around 14 million distant ...
"What we've shown is that the young stars in the Milky Way, particularly a type of star called Cepheid variables, actually show this warped distribution." Researchers said the shape is caused by torque from the rotation of the galaxy's inner stars, which circle the center once every 250-3...
The article focuses on Evan Levine and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, who created the map of the outer part of the Milky Way's spiral arms. They used radio telescope measurements of the amount of at...
This is a drawing of the Milky Way looking down from above. The evidence for this picture is provided below. The Sun is just one of 200 billion stars in this typical barred-spiral galaxy that is about 90 000 light years in diameter. A larger and unlabelled version of the above map is...
"The stars 60,000 light years away from the Milky Way's centre are as far as 4,500 light years above or below the galactic plane. This is a big percentage," said the paper's first author Dorota Skowron with the University of Warsaw in a statement. ...
surveying the ages of tens of thousands of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy which confirmed the oldest stars, which have become red giants after exhausting the hydrogen in their stellar cores, can be found in the center of the galaxy and confirms the belief the galaxy grew from the center ...
, Michael Skrutskie, and Martin Weinberg were able to help create a new star map, picking out the full Sagittarius Dwarf presence, position, and looping shape from the mass of background stars and finding this smaller galaxy to be at a near right angle to the plane of the Milky Way. ...
Astronomers have created the most correct map yet of the Milky Way—the part of space that contains our sun, solar system and more than 100 billion stars. Researchers made the threedimensional map by measuring the distance from the sun to thousands of big, brightly shining stars. They ...