Science Space This mind-blowing 3D map reveals the Milky Way’s perplexing curves It warps and flares at the edges. Charlie Wood Aug 1, 2019 10:41 PM EDT ...

The Milky Way measures about 100,000 light-years across and holds approximately 250 billion stars — give or take about 150 billion — and at least 100 billion planets.

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 ...

A New 3D Map Shows How the Milky Way Is Warped and Twisted Researchers charted our galaxy on a scale bigger than ever before and they found it flares out a bit by Scott Snowden Aug. 1, 2019 ...

The Milky Way's disk of stars becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from its center, according to astronomers who have built the first accurate 3D map of Earth's home galaxy.

Conventional wisdom has long held that the Milky Way was a flat disk of stars and gas, with a bulge in the middle. But now astronomers have created a more accurate 3D map of the galaxy and found ...

The space observatory launched in 2013 with a unique quest to deliver the most accurate 3D map of the Milky Way galaxy, with the goal of helping astronomers understand how our galaxy has evolved ...

Dorota Skowron and fellow colleagues have charted this new map with the distance of more than 2,400 Cepheid stars throughout the Milky Way. These Cepheid stars were identified by the Optical ...

This is part of the first 3D map of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 200 thousand objects are included in the map, which was made up of images from a ...

Armed with this knowledge, the team estimated the distance of 2,431 Cepheid variables in the Milky Way and, using their position in the sky, were able to create an important 3D map of our galaxy.

The 3-D Milky Way map was created using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space probe that’s been scanning the stars since 2013. The hope is that the map will shed new light on the ...