Astronomy & Astrophysics published the first analysis of a catalog of 84 million individual stars in the Milky Way bulge as a part of the VVV ESO public survey. This gigantic data set allows building ...

A nine-gigapixel VISTA infrared image of the Milky Way's central region yielded a catalog encompassing over 84 million stars, a tenfold increase over previous studies. This data set, created from the ...

An international team led by researchers from Tohoku University has found an extremely faint dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The team's discovery is part of the ongoing Subaru Strategic ...

Toward in our galaxy’s center lies Terzan 5, a celestial object shrouded in mystery. For decades, astronomers thought this conglomeration was a globular cluster of a million stars that all formed ...

Astronomers have found an extremely faint dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The satellite, named Virgo I, lies in the direction of the constellation Virgo. At the absolute magnitude of -0.8 in ...