The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of ... around 5,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Another of the star-forming regions ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches European Space Agency starts to unfold atlas of 1 billion stars in 3D Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way ...

A radio map of the Milky Way's central region taken with the MeerKAT telescope, with red boxes showing the previously unknown filamentary structures observed with the ALMA telescope. (Image credit ...

Say hello to one of the Milky ... Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 light-years away. Most of the galaxy resides in the constellation ...

In winter, the Milky Way stretches across the southern ... Read our article about these constellations then download a sky map and guided tour with astronomer Fred Watson.

The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (asterisk), near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun.