Gaia Star Map 3d. ESA Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy and beyond The Gaia satellite by the European Space Agency is currently orbiting 1.5 million kilometers beyond the moon, twirling through the heavens and dutifully marking down the positions of every point of light it sees I've processed the program's first batch of data to determine the 3D position of about 2 million stars
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Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. The Gaia satellite by the European Space Agency is currently orbiting 1.5 million kilometers beyond the moon, twirling through the heavens and dutifully marking down the positions of every point of light it sees
ESA Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy and beyond
A multitude of discoveries are on the horizon after today's much-awaited release, which is based on 22 months of charting the sky, as part of Gaia's mission to produce the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy ever created.The new data includes positions, distance indicators and motions of more than one billion stars, along with high-precision measurements of asteroids. Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy - and. The catalog, titled Early Data Release 3 , contains ultra-precise coordinates for 1,811,709,771 stars between 3rd and 21st magnitude, with a precision of a few tens of micro-arcseconds; most of these also have brightness measurements.
ESA’s Gaia Mission Releases Catalog of Nearly 1.7 Billion Stars. Click and drag to orbit, or scroll/pinch to zoom in and out, zoom all the way. Further details including annotated version of the map: Mapping and visualising Gaia DR2
ESA Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy and beyond. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group. An interactive version of this map is also available as part of Gaia Sky, a real-time, 3D astronomy visualisation software that was developed in the framework of the Gaia mission at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, University of Heidelberg, Germany