What can you see in the VISTA Milky Way map? - Space.com
WEB12 hours ago · 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...
How special is the Milky Way galaxy? Survey team releases new …
WEB2 days ago · 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.
Webb telescope reveals new details in Milky Way’s heart | CNN
WEBNov 20, 2023 · CNN — The James Webb Space Telescope has looked into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, unveiling new features and mysteries within the chaotic region that could help astronomers unravel...
NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
WEBNov 20, 2023 · The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features.
The SAGA saga: Putting the Milky Way’s ‘peculiarities ... - YaleNews
WEB2 days ago · A trio of new studies suggests the Milky Way has a unique configuration of satellite galaxies surrounding it. An image of a Milky Way-like galaxy and its system of satellite galaxies. The SAGA survey identified six small satellite galaxies in orbit around this Milky Way analog.
NASA's Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way
WEBNov 20, 2023 · A bright field of gas sweeps around the edge of a dark, dense cloud where young stars are bursting out to take their place in the universe. They join an estimated 500,000 other stars in the scene, of various ages, sizes, and colors. It’s the hub of our Milky Way galaxy, a city center at rush hour, making our solar system’s calm corner a ...
Webb reveals new features in heart of Milky Way - Phys.org
WEBNov 20, 2023 · The latest image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to...
NASA’s Webb Will Join Forces with the Event Horizon Telescope …
WEBOct 27, 2021 · Heated gas swirls around the region of the Milky Way galaxy’s supermassive black hole, illuminated in near-infrared light captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Released in 2009 to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, this was the sharpest infrared image ever made of the galactic center region.
The Milky Way is ‘less weird’ than we thought - Nature
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through the dust and gas that intersperse our Galaxy, astronomers have found that the Milky Way’s core is less dense than originally thought....
Milky Way’s Center Will Be Revealed by NASA’s Webb Telescope
WEBOct 9, 2019 · The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared cameras penetrate much of the dust, revealing the stars of the crowded galactic center region.