The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia
This is a new artist’s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA’s Gaia space telescope.
Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the nature of our galaxy’s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that they are less prominent than we previously thought. In addition, Gaia has shown that its central bar is more inclined with respect to the Sun.
No spacecraft can travel beyond our galaxy, so we can’t take a selfie, but Gaia is giving us the best insight yet of what our home galaxy looks like. Once all of Gaia’s observations collected over the past decade are made available in two upcoming data releases, we can expect an even sharper view of the Milky Way.
Click here to download the still image of the Milky Way: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/New_Gaia_release_reveals_rare_lenses_cluster_cores_and_unforeseen_science
Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
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And this video is not long enough.
I love Juliet's voice. 🥰❤
Whole human life (100 years) of travelling with lightspeed… and we are technically on same place. This is so frustrating. 🙂 Come on, anyone with some "quantum-entanglement powered" vehicle? Just DO iT! 🙂
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Amazing video. We need to get to a place where everyone can visit space once so they stop being idiots and fighting each other for nothing. Also, the video's background music almost like Mass Effect ads to the story telling. Well done.
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There are so many civilization in our own galaxy billion of year future from us.
How can you know what the Milky Way looks like if objects are as much as 100,000 light years away? Aren’t you seeing into the distant pasts at varying distances? Everything is different right now. Doesn’t it take hundreds of millions of years to make a rotation? Would it take millions of years to get information about parts that are not even the farthest? Are you making too many assumptions? And who’s on first? What’s on second. I don’t know who’s on third.
Please do this in 4K.
We live in a warped galaxy! Damn it!
Thank you Gaia❤
Good Videos. I'm found of Astronomy
😮😮😮😮 what more can you say but wow how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things just a microscopic Speck in the Universal larger than the human mind can even comprehend
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