The new map has revealed a new substructure of the Milky Way’s outer disk using data from the Gaia space misison. Credit: C. Laporte et al. (MNRAS, 2021) An international team of astronomers led by researcher Chervin Laporte of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB-IEEC) has revealed a new map of the Milky Way’s outer disk using data from the Gaia space misison. The findings have been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “Typically, this region of the Milky Way has remained poorly explored due to the intervening dust which...