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Hidden Milky Way features revealed by mapping from the inside

For most of human history, the Milky Way has been a hazy band of light, a backdrop rather than a map. Now, by reading the ...
Gizmodo

3D Map of the Milky Way Reveals Billowing Hydrogen Light Clouds

This is part of the first 3D map of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 200 thousand objects are included in the map, which was made up of images from a telescope in the Canary Islands that took ...
Yahoo

Scientists reveal never-before-seen map of the Milky Way's central engine (image)

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the ...
Science Daily

ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...
CNET

The Biggest Map of the Milky Way Ever Created Is Here

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...
Scientific American

Saying Farewell to the Gaia Mission, Which Mapped the Milky Way

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You’ve probably heard of space telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb. They’re famous for giving us breathtaking ...