Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from ... the group used the VISTA's VIRCAM, a high-resolution infrared camera that can see stars ...

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 ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...

The Gaia spectra are low-resolution, that is ... Green, “Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy,” in the journal Science. Both authors work at the ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ... with low-resolution spectroscopic survey data from Gaia ...