🔭 Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy Illustration Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25051... - ThreadSky

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apod.shinyakato.dev • 24 days ago

🔭 Gaia Reconstructs a Top View of our Galaxy

Illustration https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/: https://www.esa.int/, https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac, https://bsky.app/profile/stefanpw.bsky.social

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250513.html

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gin1902.bsky.social•20 days ago

Beautiful.

danilodantas.bsky.social•24 days ago

There's a vulva in the middle of the galaxy we're in. Fair enough.

dionaragsantana.bsky.social•24 days ago

Meu Deus...que linda! ❤️😍🙏

geoffreytucker1.bsky.social•20 days ago

How do you define "top" in this?

apod.shinyakato.dev•24 days ago

What does our Milky Way Galaxy look like from the top? Because we are on the inside, humanity can’t get an actual picture. Recently, however, just such a map has been made using location data for over a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia mission. The resulting featured illustration shows that just like

apod.shinyakato.dev•24 days ago

many other spiral galaxies, our Milky Way has distinct spiral arms. Our Sun and most of the bright stars we see at night are in just one arm: Orion. Gaia data bolsters previous indications that our Milky Way has more than two spiral arms. Our Galaxy's center sports a prominent bar. The colors of our

apod.shinyakato.dev•24 days ago

Galaxy's thin disk derive mostly from dark dust, bright blue stars, and red emission nebula. Although data analysis is ongoing, Gaia was deactivated in March after a succession mission.

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