A 13-year survey conducted by the VISTA telescope has resulted in the creation of the most detailed Milky Way map ever. It contains a stunning 1.5 billion objects.

This image shows a detailed infrared view of Messier 17, also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan Nebula, a stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. This ...

Astronomers have used the youngest objects in the Milky Way to build a new map of the galaxy's spiral arms, and the results are far messier than expected. Skip to main content.

New Map Locates Milky Way in Neighborhood of 100,000 Galaxies. Astronomers have defined a huge group of galaxies called a supercluster, now named Laniakea, with the Milky Way on its fringes.

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ...More detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

THE Southern Cross is one of the most recognisable constellations in the Milky Way. Professor Brian Cox and Dara O’ Briain recently guided viewers through the night sky on BBC2, with highligh… ...

Summer is the best time to see the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere without a telescope. The key is to find clear, dark skies on moonless nights.

To make this happen, scientists collected about 200,000 images between 2010 and 2023. The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within ...