Scientists stitched 200,000 images together to form a map of the Milky Way galaxy. The image shown here is not even half of a half of 1% of the entire map. Years ago, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory , an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile, started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way . The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years, the team has now published the...
