India, Sept. 16 -- New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI) Astronomers have mapped in details the invisible layers of cosmic dust that veils our Milky Way and reddens the light of the stars. This may help trace the locations where next generation of stars may be forming.

Scientists from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology, used the data from more than 6,000 open clusters (a type of star clusters), to chart the distribution of this interstellar dust across the Milky Way's galactic plane or disk. Most of these clusters lie close to the Galactic disk which is the thin plane of the Galaxy where interstellar matter is predominantly concentrated a...