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 ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass ... on a wide range of properties such as the motion, age and chemical ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us groundbreaking insights into our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have released the largest infrared map of the Milky Way ever. The enormous dataset contains millions of new objects, and the researchers expect to ...