It also fulfilled its primary goal 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.

A giant molecular cloud has just been discovered in the Milky Way. This structure, located 23,000 light-years away, weighs the equivalent of 160,000 times our Sun. Using the Green Bank ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of our galaxy ... and sensitivity to map distinct spectral lines within ...

“It definitely puts a pin in the map ... galaxy’s compact size supports this idea — it looks like it’s only about 230 light-years across, compared with 100,000 light-years for the Milky Way.

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

The signal from our galaxy was subtracted using the multifrequency data ... colorful birthplaces and burial grounds of stars and still farther out beyond the Milky Way to the unimaginable immensity of ...

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It maps millions of celestial objects to understand ... It could help scientists understand galaxy evolution, black holes, dark matter, and the Milky Way’s structure. “DR1 already gave the DESI ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...