Gaia’s Map of 1.3 Billion Stars Makes for a Milky Way in a Bottle.
Gaia’s Map of 1.3 Billion Stars Makes for a Milky Way in a Bottle.
DHF Tue May 01, 2018 9:04 pm
Gaia’s Map of 1.3 Billion Stars Makes for a Milky Way in a Bottle.
Call it a galaxy in a bottle.
Last Wednesday, astronomers in Europe released a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It is the most detailed survey ever produced of our home galaxy. It contains the vital statistics of some 1.3 billion stars — about one percent of the entire cosmic panoply of which Earth and the sun are part. Not to mention measurements of almost half a million quasars, asteroids and other flecks in the night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/science/gaia-map-milky-way.html
Call it a galaxy in a bottle.
Last Wednesday, astronomers in Europe released a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way. It is the most detailed survey ever produced of our home galaxy. It contains the vital statistics of some 1.3 billion stars — about one percent of the entire cosmic panoply of which Earth and the sun are part. Not to mention measurements of almost half a million quasars, asteroids and other flecks in the night.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/science/gaia-map-milky-way.html
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