Story highlights New map charts hydrogen throughout the Milky Way galaxy

Gives an unprecedented view of our galactic neighborhood

(CNN) Scientists have used two of the world's largest telescopes to produce a new, super-detailed map of our galaxy.

Astronomers in Germany and Australia charted hydrogen -- the most abundant element in space and the main component of stars and galaxies -- to give an unprecedented view of the Milky Way.

The map shows the concentration of stars and dwarf galaxies across the skies.

A map of the Milky Way showing concentrations of hydrogen. The Magellanic Clouds can be seen at the lower right.

"We've been able to produce a whole-sky image that in many ways is greater than the sum of its parts," Lister Staveley-Smith of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) told CNN.

"The new map gives us a much more coherent view of the sky and enables a better understanding of the Milky Way."