Astronomers have unveiled an unprecedented new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way, our home galaxy, peppered with thousands of previously undiscovered dense knots of cold cosmic dust — the ...

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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 ...

After ten movies, one would think that the Star Wars galaxy is a pretty big place, right? If you consider the many TV series, novels, comic books, and whatnot, then it gets even bigger. Now, Lucasfilm ...

This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). (ESO ...

The official Star Wars website has released an updated map of the entire galaxy, including many new places from recent shows and books. This version builds on an earlier map created in 2009 for Star ...

The night sky may look deceptively still, but the universe is constantly expanding, which means everything keeps trekking through the void. Now, a new map of the distances of tens of thousands of ...

Star Wars fans rejoice: Lucasfilm has relaunched its vast project to map the sci-fi saga's galaxy, and published a hugely-detailed map with more than 500 planets. Ever wondered how far it is from ...

Imagine trying to create a map of your house while confined to only the living room. You might peek through the doors into other rooms or look for light spilling in through the windows. But, in the ...

I need a good 2-D representation of the closest, say, 40 stars in relation to each other, then another that shows some major / well-known stars in our area of the galaxy but on a larger scale - say, ...