And to see if chemical cartography could reveal a clearer view of the Milky Way’s spiral arms.” Mapping the Milky Way . One traditional way to map the Milky Way is by identifying concentrations of ...

The Milky Way and its chemical composition will thus deliver insights that can be applied to other galaxies, with this new map offering a hint at the revelations that are yet to come. “It’s a ...

A new chemical map of the local region of our galaxy developed by Keith Hawkins at the University of Texas at Austin has unearthed new structural details of nearby spiral arms of the Milky Way to ...

The closest galactic relative to the Milky Way helped astronomers discover dark matter in the 1960's. By Passant Rabie Published June 26, 2025 Tech News Artificial Intelligence ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the ...

Previous maps of the chemical composition of the Milky Way were based on much smaller samples of stars and didn't go as far as the distances SDSS-II surveyed--a region extending from near the Sun ...

Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive infrared map of the Milky Way to date, revealing more than 1.5 billion objects. This massive project, spanning over 13 years and more than 420 ...

But by looking in the infrared portion of the spectrum, a strongly representative map of the Milky Way's chemical abundances can be created. According to Holtzman, ...

The Gaia data also include the most comprehensive chemical map of the Milky Way ever made. The data show that stars that are closer to the centre and plane of our galaxy are richer in metals than ...

Clockwise from top right: interstellar dust, chemical map, radial velocity and proper motion, and radial velocity. ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO ...

Astronomers have now deduced what alien scientists might see when they gaze at the Milky Way from afar. The new results suggest our home galaxy is unusual but not unique, at least when it comes to ...

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has released a trove of data on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in an effort to create the most accurate and ...