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...
As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the central engine at the heart of our galaxy. The new map of this central region of the Milky Way, which took four years to assemble, reveals the relationship ...
Barred Spiral Milky Way. Illustration Credit: R. Hurt (SSC), JPL-Caltech, NASA An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astronomers closer to...
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,
The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way, showing a stunning 1.5 billion objects using data collected over 13 years. Researchers used the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s VISTA telescope to collect 500 terabytes of data, showing the nebulae,...
The map (top) is made up of several different views of the Milky Way: Dust Glow (upper left); Carbon Monoxide Gas (upper right); Carbon Monoxide Gas (upper right); and Magnetic Fields (lower right).ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech "The cosmic microwave background light is a traveler from far awa...
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 ...
Credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kornmesser/R. Hurt, CC BY 4.0 “Our evidence suggests that when the merger occurred, the Milky Way had already formed a large population of its own stars,” said Fiorenzo Vincenzo, co-author of the study and a fellow in The Ohio State University’s ...
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Wisconsin) By pointing a powerful NASA space telescope away from our galaxy's star-studded core, astronomers are mapping the Milky Way's more sparsely populated outer fringes. "We sometimes call this flyover country," Barbara Whitney, an astronomer...
Related articleNew Milky Way map reveals a wave of stars in our galaxy's outer reaches Data taken from ground and space-based telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, across multiple wavelengths of light essentially allowed Cecil to see an otherwise invisible and glowing hot bubble...