The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

As stars move around the galactic center, they serve as a tool for mapping regions of the galaxy that are beyond the direct reach of our telescopes, including areas on the other side of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way is estimated to have anywhere from 100 billion to 400 billion stars and likely as many planets. At 1.5 billion objects, the map represents only a small slice of the galaxy.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

The Lobster Nebula seen with ESO’s VISTA telescope ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti. Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo The wonders of our galaxy are on full display in a new infrared map of the Milky Way ...

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: NGC ...

The infrared map of the Milky Way contains more than 1.5 billion objects. ESO/VVVX SURVEY VIA SWNS. At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, the telescope’s main purpose is to map large sky areas.

"The best time to see the Milky Way in (Massachusetts) is from March to September," according to the Capture the Atlas ...

Use this "road map" to plan your Milky Way observing. Skip to content. ... through about 28,000 light-years toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and the Sagittarius Star Clouds.

Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy. Science , 2025; 387 (6739): 1209 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado9787 Cite This Page : ...

D9 is the first star pair ever found near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. This image shows an emission line of hydrogen mapped by the SINFONI instrument ...