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.

The map revealed that the Milky Way is being warped by its stars at distances more than 25,000 light-years from its center. “Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat.

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.

A better Milky Way map This diagram shows a view of our Milky Way, as well as a plot of variable Cepheid stars that shows the galaxy's warped shape. (Image credit: Plot by J. Skowron/OGLE, the ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Our galaxy's Cepheid stars, superimposed onto a map of the Milky Way. Image Credit: Plot by J. Skowron / OGLE, Milky Way panorama by Serge Brunier. That said, this galactic map quest is far from over.

A large-scale 3D map of the Milky Way shows its warped shape with a new level of detail and accuracy.; Researchers measured the distances between our sun and 2,400 stars to map their three ...

Using two of the world’s largest configurable telescopes, scientists have created the most detailed map yet of hydrogen atoms the Milky Way. It’s called the HI4PI map, and it was produced ...

Fig. 1: The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the ...

The map revealed that the Milky Way is being warped by its stars at distances more than 25,000 light-years from its center. “Our map shows the Milky Way disk is not flat.