This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

Specifically, the group used the VISTA's VIRCAM, a high-resolution infrared ... though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 ...

Image: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has completed one of its major charges: delivering a map of the Milky Way galaxy, comprised of trillions of ...

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new ... let it make images of very faint objects, and its ...

But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way—the magnificent Andromeda ... the equivalent of at least 100 high-resolution Hubble images in a ...

The telescope's size let it make images of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror ... away from the Milky Way. Hubble's results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it ...