Researchers have reanalyzed the long-perplexing “Star Manual of Master Shi” and discovered that it could rightfully be considered the oldest, structured celestial map in the world. Utilizing ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

The Dunhuang map (not the chart studied in the new research ... Researchers at the Chinese National Astronomical Observatories analyzed the "Star Manual of Master Shi," the oldest surviving star ...

Rather than being flat as a Frisbee, the Milky Way’s star-studded disk is twisted and warped, according to a new three-dimensional map of our home galaxy. If viewed from the side, the spiral ...