ESA’s Gaia Mission Reveals a Multi-Dimensional Map of the Milky Way
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In Version 3 of the Gaia mission data, over 30 million objects (mainly stars) in the Milky Way are shown…
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Astronomers Map a Quarter of the Northern Hemisphere’s Sky Revealing Never-Before-Seen Galaxies
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Researchers have managed to chart a quarter of the northern hemisphere sky and have revealed never-before-seen details of a total…
New Cosmic Survey Maps Out More Galaxies Than All Previous Surveys Combined
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Astronomers have summed up the results of the first seven months of observations as part of a survey of the…
NASA InSight Lander Creates First-Ever Subterranean Map of Mars
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Scientists working with the InSight mission analyzed seismic data from the Elysian Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars….
Laser-Mapping Unveils 500 Previously Unknown Ancient Monuments
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An international team of researchers using surface laser scanning technology (LIDAR) have discovered 478 Mesoamerican monuments in southern Mexico, including…
15th Century Map of American Coast is Actually a Fake
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Scientists from Yale University, using a modern spectroscopic method of research, proved that the Vinland map, passed off as the…
Cosmic 3D Map Reveals Weird Feature of Our Solar System
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Based on data from the IBEX spacecraft, astrophysicists were able to create a three-dimensional map of the outer boundary of…
We’ve Finally Mapped The Entire Human Genome—10 Reasons Why This is Huge
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In June 2000, the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics Corporation announced the completion of work on the sequencing of…
Galactic Connections Revealed in New Dark Matter Map: 10 Things You Should Know
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A team of astrophysicists from the United States and South Korea has used artificial intelligence to create a new map…
This 3,500-Year-Old Stone Slab is the Oldest Map of Europe
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The ancient Saint-Bélec stone slab may be the oldest three-dimensional map of an area in Europe. This is the conclusion…
Astronomers Chart 25,000 Black Holes in Stunning Cosmic Map
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An international group of astronomers has published a sky map showing over 25,000 supermassive black holes. It is the most detailed…
This 3,000-Year-Old Ancient Egyptian Geologic Map Is Way Ahead Of Its Time
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More than 200 years ago, Bernadino Drovetti, the French Consul General in Egypt acquired a rare ancient Egyptian scroll of…
Cosmic 3D Map of Milky Way Reveals Location Of Brown Dwarfs Near Our Solar System
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Volunteers participating in the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 (open to both scientists and amateur astronomers) have helped…
Scientists Map Nearly 700 Million Previously Unknown Objects In The Universe
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Around 700 million astronomical objects have been carefully cataloged in a new public database called the Dark Energy Survey, created…
Astronomers Map One Million Previously Unknown Galaxies
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Astronomers have found at least one million new, previously unknown galaxies in the universe. They are calling it the biggest…
NASA’s 50-Year-Old Map To Earth Sent To Aliens Now Needs An Update
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I heard multiple stories regarding NASA’s voyager space shuttles back when I was a child. This particular topic seemed fascinating…
Most Controversial Map in History; What Secrets Does The Piri Reis Map Hold?
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The Piri Reis map is perhaps the most controversial surviving document from the age of great geographical discoveries, which is…
How an Ancient Babylonian Map of Jupiter Helped Rewrite History
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Babylonian astronomers calculated the motion of the planet Jupiter using an idea that led to integral calculus. This is a…
Artificial Intelligence Helped Create The Largest Three-Dimensional Map of The Cosmos
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There’s nothing like taking time off to go somewhere where light pollution is minimal, allowing you to observe, among other…
10 Things You Should Know About the “Planisphere”, a 5500-Year-Old Star Map
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The ancient Sumerian civilization may have been underdeveloped in the sense of a written script, for example, but they sure…
Infrared Maps of Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Reveal Weird Underground Features
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Data used to construct new infrared images of Saturn’s moon Enceladus provide strong evidence that the surface of the northern…
This is the Largest-Ever Map of the Universe and it Fills in 11 Billion Years of the Universe’s History
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There’s a decades-long project on which astronomers have been working, called the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (and the Baryon Oscillation…