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Oak Ridge grad, along with NASA artist, created a map of the Milky Way

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA ...
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Scientists reveal never-before-seen map of the Milky Way's central engine (image)

The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do we actually know it? As part of a NASA-funded project, a team led by Villanova University researchers has obtained a never-before-seen view of the ...
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NASA details plan to map the Milky Way with the Roman telescope

NASA is preparing to turn the center of our own galaxy into a precision test bed, using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...
IJR

Astronomers Create Most Detailed Infrared Map Of Milky Way

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed ever made. The team monitored the central regions of our galaxy ...
SpaceNews

First Age Map of the Halo of the Milky Way

Using a sample of 4,700 blue horizontal-branch stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the research team showed that the oldest stars are concentrated in the central region of the galaxy, confirming ...

NASA’s New Roman Telescope Will Map The Milky Way In Unprecedented Detail

The Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated for launch by ...
Science Daily

ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map ever of our Milky Way

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 ...

NASA's Roman space telescope to map the Milky way in infrared

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will soon map our Milky Way galaxy in infrared. This mission will reveal billions of stars and ...
SpaceNews

Astronomers Release New All-Sky Map of Milky Way’s Outer Reaches

Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside ...
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Scientists Chart High-Precision Map of Milky Way’s Magnetic Fields

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) are part of an international team that has pooled their radio observations into a database, producing the highest ...
The New York Times

The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way

Every new generation of eyes sees a new version of our galaxy, the Milky Way. This Impressionistic swirl of color represents the churning magnetic fields in giant dust clouds near the center of the ...

NASA announces plan to map Milky Way with Roman Space Telescope

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...