Earth is at the centre of the image, and each point in the map is a galaxy.

Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company looking to ferry private astronauts beyond Earth's atmosphere, has confirmed that the assembly for its first Delta SpaceShip will begin this month at its ...

"Essentially, our maps create a visual representation of convergence at different points in the window of the sky in which we are looking," said LLNL scientist and author Greg Sallaberry.

ProTip! Add no:assignee to see everything that’s not assigned.

That discovery let astronomers map the Milky Way well enough to know roughly how big it was, and locate its center. With the discovery that “spiral nebulae” were other far-off galaxies, our place in ...