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 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 ...

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way ever created, revealing over 1.5 billion objects. This groundbreaking discovery, 13 years in the making, has transformed our ...

The team started making the map in 2010 and finished taking images for it in 2023. Over that 13-year span, astronomers took over 200,000 images across 420 nights to map as much of the Milky Way as ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

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 ...