SYDNEY, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- An Australian and Chinese collaboration has created the most accurate 3D model so far of the Milky Way, showing the galaxy to be curved rather than a flat disc shape. The team from Macquarie University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences used the locations of 1...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- An international team of astronomers charted the most detailed three-dimensional map of the Milky Way, revealing that the galaxy is not flat but has an S-shaped, warped stellar disc. The study published on Thursday online in the journal Science showed that the...
A team of researchers at the University of Warsaw has created the most accurate 3-D model of the Milky Way Galaxy to date. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group explains how they used measurements from a special group of pulsating st
Dazzling New Milky Way Map Shows How Magnetism Shapes Our Galaxy An image of interstellar dust moving through the Milky Way’s magnetic field may help scientists learn more about the origin of galaxies ByRiis Williamsedited bySarah Lewin Frasier D. Paré, K. Karpovich and D. Chuss/Villanova...
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. This name derives from its appearance as a dim "milky" glowing band arching across the night sky, in which the naked eye cannot distinguish individual stars. The term "Milky Way" is a translatio
scientists have extended a nearly complete map of the spiral structure of the galaxy by tracing regions of hydrogen that dominate the spiral arms. The development of telescopes that could be placed in orbit led by 2005 to confirmation that the Milky Way was a barred spiral galaxy, not a spira...
In a recently published study, they announced the release of their final data product: a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects—the most detailed map our galaxy has ever created! With over 200,000 images and 500 terabytes of data, this map is also...
Longitude-velocity map of the Milky Way Galaxy as shown by spectral line emission of carbon monoxide in molecular clouds. The vertical axis represents velocity and the horizontal axis longitude. The gentle curves in the left and right portions of the map trace the spiral arms of the Milky Way...
Additionally, we introduce tools for 3D extinction correction of objects within the Milky Way. Furthermore, we present a review of dust structure studies based on the Galactic 3D extinction map. The distribution of dust in the Milky Way is generally considered to be disk-shaped, akin to the ...
The majority of massive disk galaxies in the local Universe show a stellar barred structure in their central regions, including our Milky Way1,2. Bars are supposed to develop in dynamically cold stellar disks at low redshift, as the strong gas turbulence