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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The core of the Milky Way in Sagittarius low in the south over the Frenchman River valley at ... [+] Grasslands National Park ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

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 ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission ... of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy ...