Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic ... "Higher density," of course, is in this case still very little: approximately ten billionth billionth grams ...

to construct the most detailed 3D map yet of the properties of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's Gaia mission, which was a 10.5-year-effort to obtain ...

"Thanks to its telescopes, we have in our possession today the most detailed billion-star 3D atlas ever assembled." The new map helps astronomers make predictions, envisioning the movements of ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed a detailed, three-dimensional ... everything else in the Milky Way. The 3D map indicates where the cloud most muddies the ...