These new findings shed light on the warped, twisted shape of the galaxy's disk, researchers added. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy comprised of a bar-shaped core region surrounded by a flat disk ...

Our galaxy's Cepheid stars, superimposed onto a map of the Milky Way. Image Credit: Plot by J. Skowron / OGLE, Milky Way panorama by Serge Brunier That said, this galactic map quest is far from over.

They act like a lighthouse beacon that cuts through the obscuring dust of our galaxy. The new 3D map relies on the measurements of more than 2,400 Cepheids, many of which were newly identified by ...

Now two studies, one published in February in Nature Astronomy and the other, this week in Science, confirm that our galaxy has a distinctive snaky curvature thanks to new 3D maps of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have created a 3D map of our entire galaxy, pinpointing stars called Cepheids which pulsate and can be used to track distance and changes in space. When put into a map, the data showed ...

That study looked at 1,339 Cepheids and created one of the most comprehensive 3D maps of the Milky Way, which showed that our home galaxy is twisted at its edges.

Our Milky Way galaxy's disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly 'warped' and twisted far away from the Milky Way's centre, according to astronomers from ...

The best 3D map yet of the center of the Milky Way galaxy has revealed a tasty surprise: the heart of our galaxy looks like a cosmic peanut. Two international teams of astronomers discovered the ...

But researchers love a challenge, and after years of toil a Polish team has released the most complete map of our galaxy to date. ... (1,000 more than a concurrent study) on a 3D galactic map.

Now, scientists from the European Space Agency have used those photographs to build a three-dimensional map of our galaxy - the Milky Way. It covers an area about 100,000 light years across, and ...

Our solar system is located in an offshoot of one of the Milky Way's spiral arms, so we don't have a clear sense of what our galaxy looks like edge on.

We’re building a map of our galaxy, one star at a time. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite orbits Earth 1.5 million kilometres away, staring at millions of stars every day to make a 3D ...