This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom: NGC 3576, ...
Data collection is expected to be completed between February 2nd and 8th. LiDAR provides high-resolution, three-dimensional maps of surface features at cm scale resolution. It operates by emitting ...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...