Astronomers reveal a new map of the Milky Way, showing a clumpy gas structure in its outer disk. The discovery reshapes how ...

Chinese scientists analyzed astronomer Shi Shen’s record of the stars and found it to predate previously known Greek ...

Scientists are building a better account of the lives of adolescent stars, starting from their births in collapsing clouds of cosmic gas and dust to the time they "fly the nest" and drift away ...

IN this chart the whole sky is shown on a large sheet in three sections'one equatorial, Mercator projection, and two polar maps. The stars, which are graded in size according to magnitude ...

is now considered the oldest star chart in the world. Later observations written into the catalog showed inconsistencies with Shi’s findings. This was because of Earth’s shift on its axis ...

The Dunhuang map (not the chart studied in the new research) is an early star map from China dating to the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618 to 907). | Credit: CPA Media Pte Ltd via Alamy The oldest star ...

The chart also provides pointers for the unknown ... matter so—just as dotted lines of equal density connect atoms and stars—could the densities of galaxies tell us something about the ...