The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the map -- and it's absolutely massive.

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

In the right place at the right time, you can see it as a spilled-milk streak across the night sky ... across the Milky Way. The result is an unprecedented large-scale 3D map of the galaxy.

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Summer is the best time of year for seeing the Milky Way from the northern hemisphere—and parts of August are the very best.

The video then transitions to a dazzling night scene, revealing a star-filled sky with the Milky Way stretching across the horizon. A screenshot from a TikTok video capturing the Milky Way at ...