This map of the Milky Way shows the distribution of interstellar dust across the galaxy as seen by the Planck space observatory, a mission by the European Space Agency. (Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech) The yellow version (upper right) shows carbon monoxide gas, which is concentrated in...
One of The Milky Way's 'Bones' Was Just Fully Mapped For The First Time Science Alert - April 6, 2022 That bone is a long, dense filament of cold gas in the densest part of one of the galaxy's spiral arms. It measures around 195 light-years in length; the map, acquired using ...
Artist's impression of the central bulge of the Milky Way. (Image credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt) The best 3D map yet of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a tasty surprise: the heart of our galaxy looks like a cosmic peanut. Two international ...
this collection of stars would be rotating and flattened out as a disk, with the Solar System embedded within it. Astronomer William Herschel (who discovered Uranus) attempted to actually map out the shape of the Milky Way in 1785,
Artist’s impression of the Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech) These include the intricacies ofgalaxy formation, discrepancies with the current Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda CDM) model, alternative theories on the nature of dark matter, and the large-scale str...
evolution of the Milky Way," says Tom Bania, an astronomer at Boston University. "To me, perhaps the ‘Holy Grail’ of astronomy is to provide a clear perspective of our relationship to the physical universe. The map of our galaxy is a part of that, and that map is ...
Astronomers release new all-sky map of the Milky Way's outer reachesPhysOrg - April 21, 2021 Astronomers using data from NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies...
000 stars. The vast size of the sample enabled the mapmakers to determine the distances of the material that causes the DIBs and thus how the material is distributed throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. The resulting maps showed the intriguing result that the complex molecules thought to be ...
Called the "Great Dark Lane" by the astronomers who announced it, the dusty road twists in front of the bulge of the galaxy. "For the first time, we could map this dust lane at large scales, because our new infrared maps cover the whole central region of the Milky Way," Dante Minniti...
“We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our Galaxy forever,” said project leader Dante Minniti of Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile in astatement. One important part of the data is a more accurate map of the inner region of the Milky Way, which is often obscured by...