A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile. The ...

“We made so many discoveries, we have changed the view of our galaxy forever,” Dante Minniti, VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) survey project lead and an astrophysicist at Chile’s Universidad ...

International scientists have gotten their clearest view yet of the Milky Way’s magnetic field thanks to a project based in the Okanagan.

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to build the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way ever attempted.

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...

Our understanding of the galaxy has advanced with every leap in the number of stars. From early observations to more and more advanced space and ground-based telescopes, each milestone has revealed ...

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere is a frustrating time for many amateur astronomers. The nights never get dark enough to easily see the faint, fuzzy galaxies and nebulae they enjoy looking at through ...