14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... first batch of data was released to the astronomical community. Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying a billion stars and, in this taster of the richer catalogue to come, it has already pinned down...
22 May 2017
Researchers create largest-ever 3D map of the Universe
... supermassive black holes) are shown by the red dots, and nearer galaxies mapped by SDSS are also shown (yellow). The right hand edge of the map is the limit of the observable universe, from which we see the Cosmic...
02 December 2020
Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time
... millions of bright specks captured on the panorama are distant galaxies beyond the Milky Way. It’s like a “Google map of the Universe,” the science agency adds. Of the three million galaxies mapped, about a million have never been seen before...
