Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers have made the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy ever made ... The huge infrared map comes in at 500 terabytes of data, making it the largest observational project ever carried ...