ESO/VVV Consortium . This diagram plots the brightnesses of more than 84 million stars in the central part of the Milky Way against their colours, measured from many VISTA images as part of the ...

You can't just drive a Google Maps car around the Milky Way to diagram it. It's fortunate, then, that new information gathered by the European Space Agency's Gaia observatory offers the most ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this just leaves us speechless. Pictured above is a compressed 108,500 x 81,500 pixel image of 84 million stars across central parts of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Astronomers have catalogued 84 million stars at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy using an enormous 9-gigapixel image snapped by a telescope in Chile. ... These diagrams are valuable tools, ...

Diagram of the shape of the Milky Way. Stars in the disk also tend to be much younger than stars in the halo, so they have not had as much time to build up heavier elements through ages of nuclear ...

The new color-magnitude diagram of the bulge contains a treasure-trove of information about the structure and content of the Milky Way. One interesting result revealed in the new data is the large ...

Diagram showing the orbits of the six G objects near to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Anna Ciurlo, Tuan Do/UCLA Galactic Center Group ...

The Milky Way is our galaxy, a massive system made of stars, gas and dust. It is estimated to contain more than 100 billion stars and is about 100,000 light-years across.

Scientists have found a vast “extragalactic structure” hidden behind the Milky Way.. The structure has been hidden because it is in the so-called “zone of avoidance”.

Peak days to view the Milky Way started on May 20 and go through May 30, according to science news website LiveScience. The best viewing time is between about midnight and 5 a.m., according to ...

The probability of the Milky Way colliding with the Andromeda galaxy within the next 10 billion years is now estimated at 50%, lower and farther in the future than previous predictions.