For the first time, MPA researchers and alumni have now used a novel method that fully exploits all information in galaxy maps and applied it to simulated but realistic datasets.

Have an existential crisis about your place in the vast scale of a fictional universe by diving deep into the newly updated ...

The team plotted the locations of 1,339 Cepheids on a 3D map, ... simulations of a realistic galaxy embedded in a dark matter halo to see if we can reproduce the observations and figure out how ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich working with UCSC’s astronomers have created the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way. It’s amazing that all ...

In fact, the trope of missing planets or inaccurate star maps might be the most realistic thing in all of Star Wars’s fanciful faraway galaxy. “It’s absolutely realistic,” Patrick Johnson ...