Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Or does the star merely look reddish ... to construct the most detailed 3D map yet of the properties of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's Gaia mission ...

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

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... radio pulses: a dead star, called a white dwarf, that ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...