Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors. It's a small, irregular galaxy that orbits the ...

Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, they trained a neural network to model the dust’s effect on starlight ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

CENDES: So, Gaia is a European Space Agency probe that ... but this is really still very much in our galactic neighborhood. The Milky Way for scale is about 100,000 light years from one end ...

By combining precise stellar parameters from LAMOST with Gaia’s low-resolution spectroscopic data ... to construct a 3D map ...

By integrating precise stellar parameters from LAMOST with low-resolution spectroscopic survey data from Gaia, astronomers ...

Researchers have revealed the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy ...