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The Milky Way over the Warsaw Telescope. Cepheid stars found by OGLE and used to determine the galaxy's warped shape are shown as yellow dots in the sky. Image by K. Ulaczyk / J. Skowron / OGLE

Science Aug 01

New 3D maps of the Milky Way confirm our galaxy is warped

By Vicky Stein

The map shows the total brightness and color of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way observed by ESA's Gaia satellite between July 2014 and May 2016. Photo by ESA/Gaia/DPAC

This stunning map of the Milky Way pinpoints more than 1 billion stars

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a catalog, the most detailed to date, of more than 1.5 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

By Lee Billings, Scientific American

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