This artistic illustration provided by the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) shows the interstellar dust in the Milky Way and China's Large Sky Area ...

Green. The team combined 2 million stellar spectra from LAMOST with positional and spectroscopic data from the European Gaia space observatory, creating a dynamic 3D map that tracks how dust ...

Their study was complemented by data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) survey and from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE).