While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our ... Nebula, a stellar nursery located about 5500 light ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way. Physicists have ...

The feature in question is in the GD-1 stellar stream, a thin group of stars moving together on a shared trajectory through the Milky Way's all-encompassing halo. The GD-1 stellar stream has been ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

We can trace the "spin-up" of the Milky Way disk in the way the average properties of stellar orbits change as ... the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a direct ...

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky Way ... stellar census contains details of star motions, luminosities, temperatures and compositions. The aim is to build the largest and most precise ...

Gaia space telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions ... of stars in the Milky Way since its launch in December 2013 to create a ‘huge stellar census’.