Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

"If you want to know something ... of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

If you buy through a BGR link ... Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to ...

But here are a few numbers ... was to reveal the history and structure of the Milky Way by building the most precise, three-dimensional map of the positions and velocities of a billion stars.

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...