Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

Using the VISTA telescope, the European Southern Observatory put 13 years of work into the map, which consists of 200,000 ...

From the violent births of newborn stars to the hidden mysteries of the galactic core, these new images show the Milky Way as you've never seen it before. After 13 years of observations ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of over 1.5 billion objects within our galaxy. The 200,000 images were collected by the Visible and Infrared Survey ...

BREATHTAKING new images of the Milky Way have been been revealed as part of what scientists say is the most detailed infrared map ever made. The map is made up of roughly 200,000 images ...

Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

A group of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the ...

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have released the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy ever compiled. Completed after more than 13 years of monitoring using ...

Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (Vista) telescope, the scientists monitored the central regions of the Milky Way for more ...

A long-term survey of small, “satellite” galaxies that orbit larger galaxies across the universe offers new insights into our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Since 2012, the Satellites Around Galactic ...

More information: Yao-Yuan Mao et al, The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way-mass Galaxies, arXiv (2024).DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.14498 Marla Geha et al, The SAGA ...