The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy. And that map shows that the edges of the Milky way bend slightly, giving it a warped S shape. "Our map shows the Milky Way disk is ...

In their study published Thursday in the journal Science, they showed that by measuring the distance between classical Cepheid variable stars within the galaxy, they could develop a three-dimensional ...

Astronomers have developed an ingenious way to measure the magnetic field of the Milky Way using ... and a new algorithm to map the magnetic fields in the galaxy in that part of the sky.

Despite the huge amount of data, though, the map doesn't cover the entire Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

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

A new view of the Milky Way: Warped and twisted Our galaxy, the Milky Way ... The new three dimensional map has been published in the journal Science. The popular picture of the Milky Way as ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy ... ASTRO 3D and the University of Oklahoma. “We’re now seeing where the galaxy’s influence stops ...