The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of ... around 5,900 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Another of the star-forming regions ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of ... light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.

Gaia was launched in 2013 to map and characterize more than one billion of the stars in the Milky Way. The researchers ... Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus, pictured here.