Thursday 29 September 2016

Most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way shows over one billion stars

A map created by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope that shows a billion stars in the Milky Way. (ESA)

The largest all-sky survey of celestial objects ever made by humans was released this month, using data from The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia satellite.

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