How do you map something you can’t see? For astronomers studying the Milky Way, the answer lies in radio waves-the very lowest frequencies that slip past the dust and gas obscuring our galaxy’s heart.

Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever galaxy cluster catalog, a monumental achievement that could unlock new insights ...

The wide frequency coverage of GLEAM gave astronomers the first "radio colour" map of the sky, including the galaxy itself.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the ...

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Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of the cosmic woods. reading time 3 minutes The European Space Agency’s Gaia ...

It has been ten years since the release of the Hipparcos and Tycho catalogues, the first astrometric catalogues produced from observations in space. The Hipparcos catalogue has since been re-processed ...

Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that our planet is plunging ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Peering back in time more than 7 billion years, a team of astronomers using a powerful new spectrograph at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has obtained the first maps showing the distribution of ...