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Inside Gaia's billion-pixel camera
ESA's Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars. The key to this is the billion-pixel camera at the heart of its dual telescope. This animation illustrates how the camera works.
See http://sci.esa.int/gaia/53281-inside-gaias-billion-pixel-camera/ for a more detailed description.
Credits: ESA
published: 12 Dec 2013
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James Webb Space Telescope spotted by ESA's Gaia spacecraft
ESA's Gaia mission captured imagery of the James Webb Space Telescope in space.
Credit: ESA
published: 17 Mar 2022
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Gaia's 3D View of Our Galaxy
ESA's Gaia satellite is creating a 3D view of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/launchpad. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/space.
The Milky Way Galaxy is our home, but the Gaia space telescope is letting us see our Galaxy in 3D for the first time!
00:00 Gaia's Third Data Release
01:33 Magellan TV
02:27 Astrometry and Hipparcos
04:02 Gaia's Orbit and Parallax
05:04 Stellar Properties and Evolution
07:38 Gaia's Telescope and Camera System
09:40 3D Motions of Stars and Solar System Motion
11:...
published: 06 Feb 2021
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How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
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The great advances in any science tend to come in sudden leaps. April 25th of 2018 marks the beginning of just such a leap for much of astronomy. In the early hours of the morning, the Gaia mission’s second data release dropped. Our understanding of our own galaxy will never be the same again.
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published: 09 May 2018
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Gaia: one billion stars in 3D
Narrated by Sean Pertwee. More than a million kilometres above us in space, the Gaia satellite is busy building the most precise 3D map of one billion stars in our galaxy. The satellite’s sophisticated instruments measure the distances to stars and records their movements to an unprecedented level of accuracy. Using these data, it is possible to create a 3D movie of the positions and motions of one billion stars – 1,000 times more than ever before.
Selected for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2018
published: 11 Jun 2018
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How the Gaia spacecraft will scan the entire sky
As the Gaia space telescope prepares to launch, find out how a celestial self-portrait of a billion stars is set to revolutionise astronomy
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029470.800
published: 12 Dec 2013
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Gaia Will Make a Map of One Billion Stars | ESA Space Science HD Video
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The Gaia spacecraft will be used to create the most detailed star map ever made. Please rate and comment, thanks!
Credit: ESA
published: 19 Dec 2013
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Gaia's mission: solving the celestial puzzle
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond.
On 19th December 2013, a rocket blasted into the sky from a launch site in French Guiana and travelled 1.5 million km to reach its destination in orbit around the Sun. The spacecraft is called Gaia. Its mission, funded by the European Space Agency and involving scientists from across Europe, is to make the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever attempted.
It will be a census of a billion stars spread across our galaxy. The results, says Professor Gerry Gilmore from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy and the Principal Investigator for UK involvement in the mission, "will revolutionise our und...
published: 19 Dec 2013
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Gaia space telescope hopes to map Milky Way in better detail than ever
A cutting edge, billion-pixel camera will be launched into space on the world-famous Gaia telescope...
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A cutting edge, billion-pixel camera will be launched into space on the world-famous Gaia telescope in an effort to learn more about the origin and evolution of the universe.
Due to lift off from French Guyana on Thursday morning, Gaia is charged with mapping the Milky Way in closer detail than ever before.
Project scientist, Timo Prusti, explained the si...
published: 18 Dec 2013
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Zoom into the Milky Way (Gaia Data Release 3)
Full description in this story: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3-where-are-the-stars
Animation created for Gaia's data release 3 on 13 June 2022: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/data-release-3
Zoom-in into our local neighbourhood starting from the Milky Way artistic impression all the way to the Earth and Moon, passing through:
*Milky Way artistic impression by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
*Density maps created by Kevin Jardine of the hot star data for the paper "Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way" by the
Gaia Collaboration, Drimmel, R., et al. 2022
*Density maps created by Kevin Jardine for the paper "Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars" by the Gaia Collaboration, R.L. Smart, et. al. 2020.
*Density map created by Kevin Jardin...
published: 21 Jun 2022
4:27
Inside Gaia's billion-pixel camera
ESA's Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars. The key ...
ESA's Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars. The key to this is the billion-pixel camera at the heart of its dual telescope. This animation illustrates how the camera works.
See http://sci.esa.int/gaia/53281-inside-gaias-billion-pixel-camera/ for a more detailed description.
Credits: ESA
https://wn.com/Inside_Gaia's_Billion_Pixel_Camera
ESA's Gaia mission will produce an unprecedented 3D map of our Galaxy by mapping, with exquisite precision, the position and motion of a billion stars. The key to this is the billion-pixel camera at the heart of its dual telescope. This animation illustrates how the camera works.
See http://sci.esa.int/gaia/53281-inside-gaias-billion-pixel-camera/ for a more detailed description.
Credits: ESA
- published: 12 Dec 2013
- views: 181171
1:33
James Webb Space Telescope spotted by ESA's Gaia spacecraft
ESA's Gaia mission captured imagery of the James Webb Space Telescope in space.
Credit: ESA
ESA's Gaia mission captured imagery of the James Webb Space Telescope in space.
Credit: ESA
https://wn.com/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_Spotted_By_Esa's_Gaia_Spacecraft
ESA's Gaia mission captured imagery of the James Webb Space Telescope in space.
Credit: ESA
- published: 17 Mar 2022
- views: 15599
17:35
Gaia's 3D View of Our Galaxy
ESA's Gaia satellite is creating a 3D view of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/launchpad. It's ...
ESA's Gaia satellite is creating a 3D view of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Get your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/launchpad. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/genres/space.
The Milky Way Galaxy is our home, but the Gaia space telescope is letting us see our Galaxy in 3D for the first time!
00:00 Gaia's Third Data Release
01:33 Magellan TV
02:27 Astrometry and Hipparcos
04:02 Gaia's Orbit and Parallax
05:04 Stellar Properties and Evolution
07:38 Gaia's Telescope and Camera System
09:40 3D Motions of Stars and Solar System Motion
11:08 Galactic Warp and Sagittarius Dwarf Collision
13:02 The Galactic Bar
13:35 Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
14:16 Andromeda Collision
14:59 Asteroids
15:35 Data Releases and Improvements
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The Milky Way Galaxy is our home, but the Gaia space telescope is letting us see our Galaxy in 3D for the first time!
00:00 Gaia's Third Data Release
01:33 Magellan TV
02:27 Astrometry and Hipparcos
04:02 Gaia's Orbit and Parallax
05:04 Stellar Properties and Evolution
07:38 Gaia's Telescope and Camera System
09:40 3D Motions of Stars and Solar System Motion
11:08 Galactic Warp and Sagittarius Dwarf Collision
13:02 The Galactic Bar
13:35 Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
14:16 Andromeda Collision
14:59 Asteroids
15:35 Data Releases and Improvements
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- published: 06 Feb 2021
- views: 83401
10:45
How Gaia Changed Astronomy Forever
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The great advances in any science tend to come in sudden leaps. April 25th of 2018 marks the beginning of just such a leap for much of astronomy. In the early hours of the morning, the Gaia mission’s second data release dropped. Our understanding of our own galaxy will never be the same again.
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The Gaia satellite was launched in late 2013, entirely built and operated by the European Space Agency. It’s primary goal is to map the stars of the Milky Way with a scale and precision orders of magnitude greater than ever before. Gaia’s predecessor, Hipparcos, catalogued 120 thousand stars, Gaia blows it out of the water with positions, colors and brightnesses of nearly 1.7 billion stars. Gaia can see orders of magnitude fainter and further away than previous missions. But its greatest superpower is its precise astrometry – Gaia can pin down a star’s position to the equivalent of a human hair’s width at 1000 km. That’s one-to-two thousand times smaller than the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The great advances in any science tend to come in sudden leaps. April 25th of 2018 marks the beginning of just such a leap for much of astronomy. In the early hours of the morning, the Gaia mission’s second data release dropped. Our understanding of our own galaxy will never be the same again.
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The Gaia satellite was launched in late 2013, entirely built and operated by the European Space Agency. It’s primary goal is to map the stars of the Milky Way with a scale and precision orders of magnitude greater than ever before. Gaia’s predecessor, Hipparcos, catalogued 120 thousand stars, Gaia blows it out of the water with positions, colors and brightnesses of nearly 1.7 billion stars. Gaia can see orders of magnitude fainter and further away than previous missions. But its greatest superpower is its precise astrometry – Gaia can pin down a star’s position to the equivalent of a human hair’s width at 1000 km. That’s one-to-two thousand times smaller than the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Hosted by Matt O'Dowd
Written by Drew Rosen and Matt O'Dowd
Graphics by Grayson Blackmon
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Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)
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Mark Rosenthal
Dean Fuqua
Roman Pinchuk
ColeslawPurdie
Hypernova
Edmund Fokschaner
Matthew O’Connor
Eugene Lawson
Barry Hatfield
Martha Hunt
Joseph Salomone
Chuck Zegar
Craig Peterson
Jordan Young
Ratfeast
John Hofmann
Thanks to our Patreon Gamma Ray Burst Supporters:
James Hughes
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Jane Meyers
James Flowers
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Nick Virtue
Alexey Eromenko
Nicholas Rose
Scott Gossett
Mark Vasile
Patrick Murray
Sultan Alkhulaifi
Alex Seto
Michal-Peanut Karmi
Erik Stein
Kevin Warne
JJ Bagnell
Avi Goldfinger
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Nathan Leniz
Brandon Labonte
David Crane
Greg Weiss
Shannan Catalano
Brandon Cook
- published: 09 May 2018
- views: 424823
5:05
Gaia: one billion stars in 3D
Narrated by Sean Pertwee. More than a million kilometres above us in space, the Gaia satellite is busy building the most precise 3D map of one billion stars in...
Narrated by Sean Pertwee. More than a million kilometres above us in space, the Gaia satellite is busy building the most precise 3D map of one billion stars in our galaxy. The satellite’s sophisticated instruments measure the distances to stars and records their movements to an unprecedented level of accuracy. Using these data, it is possible to create a 3D movie of the positions and motions of one billion stars – 1,000 times more than ever before.
Selected for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2018
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Narrated by Sean Pertwee. More than a million kilometres above us in space, the Gaia satellite is busy building the most precise 3D map of one billion stars in our galaxy. The satellite’s sophisticated instruments measure the distances to stars and records their movements to an unprecedented level of accuracy. Using these data, it is possible to create a 3D movie of the positions and motions of one billion stars – 1,000 times more than ever before.
Selected for the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2018
- published: 11 Jun 2018
- views: 4684
1:45
How the Gaia spacecraft will scan the entire sky
As the Gaia space telescope prepares to launch, find out how a celestial self-portrait of a billion stars is set to revolutionise astronomy
Read more: http://ww...
As the Gaia space telescope prepares to launch, find out how a celestial self-portrait of a billion stars is set to revolutionise astronomy
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029470.800
https://wn.com/How_The_Gaia_Spacecraft_Will_Scan_The_Entire_Sky
As the Gaia space telescope prepares to launch, find out how a celestial self-portrait of a billion stars is set to revolutionise astronomy
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029470.800
- published: 12 Dec 2013
- views: 20006
1:58
Gaia Will Make a Map of One Billion Stars | ESA Space Science HD Video
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The Gaia spacecraft will be used to create the most detailed star map ever made. Please rate and commen...
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The Gaia spacecraft will be used to create the most detailed star map ever made. Please rate and comment, thanks!
Credit: ESA
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Credit: ESA
- published: 19 Dec 2013
- views: 1257
19:59
Gaia's mission: solving the celestial puzzle
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the univer...
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond.
On 19th December 2013, a rocket blasted into the sky from a launch site in French Guiana and travelled 1.5 million km to reach its destination in orbit around the Sun. The spacecraft is called Gaia. Its mission, funded by the European Space Agency and involving scientists from across Europe, is to make the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever attempted.
It will be a census of a billion stars spread across our galaxy. The results, says Professor Gerry Gilmore from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy and the Principal Investigator for UK involvement in the mission, "will revolutionise our understanding of the cosmos as never before."
http://www.gaia.ac.uk
http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
https://wn.com/Gaia's_Mission_Solving_The_Celestial_Puzzle
A space mission to create the largest, most-accurate, map of the Milky Way in three dimensions will revolutionise our understanding of the galaxy and the universe beyond.
On 19th December 2013, a rocket blasted into the sky from a launch site in French Guiana and travelled 1.5 million km to reach its destination in orbit around the Sun. The spacecraft is called Gaia. Its mission, funded by the European Space Agency and involving scientists from across Europe, is to make the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever attempted.
It will be a census of a billion stars spread across our galaxy. The results, says Professor Gerry Gilmore from Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy and the Principal Investigator for UK involvement in the mission, "will revolutionise our understanding of the cosmos as never before."
http://www.gaia.ac.uk
http://sci.esa.int/gaia/
- published: 19 Dec 2013
- views: 564683
0:51
Gaia space telescope hopes to map Milky Way in better detail than ever
A cutting edge, billion-pixel camera will be launched into space on the world-famous Gaia telescope...
euronews, the most watched news channel in Europe
S...
A cutting edge, billion-pixel camera will be launched into space on the world-famous Gaia telescope...
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A cutting edge, billion-pixel camera will be launched into space on the world-famous Gaia telescope in an effort to learn more about the origin and evolution of the universe.
Due to lift off from French Guyana on Thursday morning, Gaia is charged with mapping the Milky Way in closer detail than ever before.
Project scientist, Timo Prusti, explained the significance of the mission.
"For every professional astronomer, there is no need to explain how fundamental Gaia is. Everyone knows that when you get the distances to stars, it's the basis of all the rest of astronomy," he said. "And everyone is looking forward to getting this data in [their] hands."
Designed and built for the European Space Agency, Gaia is so sensitive that it can detect the width of a single human hair from a distance of a thousand kilometres.
The mission's primary aim is to build a three-dimensional map of our galaxy.
It is also expected to discover up to ten thousand planets beyond our Solar System, as well as hundreds of thousands of asteroids and comets within it.
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A cutting edge, billion-pixel camera will be launched into space on the world-famous Gaia telescope in an effort to learn more about the origin and evolution of the universe.
Due to lift off from French Guyana on Thursday morning, Gaia is charged with mapping the Milky Way in closer detail than ever before.
Project scientist, Timo Prusti, explained the significance of the mission.
"For every professional astronomer, there is no need to explain how fundamental Gaia is. Everyone knows that when you get the distances to stars, it's the basis of all the rest of astronomy," he said. "And everyone is looking forward to getting this data in [their] hands."
Designed and built for the European Space Agency, Gaia is so sensitive that it can detect the width of a single human hair from a distance of a thousand kilometres.
The mission's primary aim is to build a three-dimensional map of our galaxy.
It is also expected to discover up to ten thousand planets beyond our Solar System, as well as hundreds of thousands of asteroids and comets within it.
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- published: 18 Dec 2013
- views: 1256
0:53
Zoom into the Milky Way (Gaia Data Release 3)
Full description in this story: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3-where-are-the-stars
Animation created for Gaia's data release 3 on 13 June 2022: https:...
Full description in this story: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3-where-are-the-stars
Animation created for Gaia's data release 3 on 13 June 2022: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/data-release-3
Zoom-in into our local neighbourhood starting from the Milky Way artistic impression all the way to the Earth and Moon, passing through:
*Milky Way artistic impression by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
*Density maps created by Kevin Jardine of the hot star data for the paper "Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way" by the
Gaia Collaboration, Drimmel, R., et al. 2022
*Density maps created by Kevin Jardine for the paper "Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars" by the Gaia Collaboration, R.L. Smart, et. al. 2020.
*Density map created by Kevin Jardine for the 10 parsecs sample from the paper "The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era" by C. Reylé et.al. 2021.
Combining the model with maps at three different scales allows a video
showing a fly in from the entire galaxy right to the Earth.
Sources / Credits:
* ESA/Gaia/DPAC
* Hot star density and bar orientation from "Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way" by the Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel,
et al. 2022.
* Dust from "Three-dimensional extinction maps: Inverting inter-calibrated
extinction catalogues" by J.R. Vergely, R. Lallement and N.L.J. Cox, 2022.
* Young star clusters updated from data originally described in "Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters" by T. Cantat-Gaudin, et. al. 2020.
* HII region positions determined by known ionizing stars and clusters with
sizes estimated using Douglas Finkbeiner's H-alpha Full Sky Map and
distances taken from "Estimating Distances from Parallaxes. V. Geometric and Photogeometric Distances to 1.47 Billion Stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3" by C.A.L. Bailer-Jones et.al. 2021.
* Stars within 100 parsecs from "Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars" by the Gaia Collaboration, R.L. Smart, et. al. 2020.
* Stars within 10 parsecs from "The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era" by
C. Reylé et.al. 2021.
* Hydrogen clouds within 10 parsecs illustrated by NASA based on research by J. Linsky and S. Redfield.
* The image of the Earth and Moon was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1992.
* The 3D model of the Milky Way was constructed in Blender by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar.
* Galactic cartography by Kevin Jardine.
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Full description in this story: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dr3-where-are-the-stars
Animation created for Gaia's data release 3 on 13 June 2022: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/data-release-3
Zoom-in into our local neighbourhood starting from the Milky Way artistic impression all the way to the Earth and Moon, passing through:
*Milky Way artistic impression by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar
*Density maps created by Kevin Jardine of the hot star data for the paper "Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way" by the
Gaia Collaboration, Drimmel, R., et al. 2022
*Density maps created by Kevin Jardine for the paper "Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars" by the Gaia Collaboration, R.L. Smart, et. al. 2020.
*Density map created by Kevin Jardine for the 10 parsecs sample from the paper "The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era" by C. Reylé et.al. 2021.
Combining the model with maps at three different scales allows a video
showing a fly in from the entire galaxy right to the Earth.
Sources / Credits:
* ESA/Gaia/DPAC
* Hot star density and bar orientation from "Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way" by the Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel,
et al. 2022.
* Dust from "Three-dimensional extinction maps: Inverting inter-calibrated
extinction catalogues" by J.R. Vergely, R. Lallement and N.L.J. Cox, 2022.
* Young star clusters updated from data originally described in "Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters" by T. Cantat-Gaudin, et. al. 2020.
* HII region positions determined by known ionizing stars and clusters with
sizes estimated using Douglas Finkbeiner's H-alpha Full Sky Map and
distances taken from "Estimating Distances from Parallaxes. V. Geometric and Photogeometric Distances to 1.47 Billion Stars in Gaia Early Data Release 3" by C.A.L. Bailer-Jones et.al. 2021.
* Stars within 100 parsecs from "Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars" by the Gaia Collaboration, R.L. Smart, et. al. 2020.
* Stars within 10 parsecs from "The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era" by
C. Reylé et.al. 2021.
* Hydrogen clouds within 10 parsecs illustrated by NASA based on research by J. Linsky and S. Redfield.
* The image of the Earth and Moon was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1992.
* The 3D model of the Milky Way was constructed in Blender by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar.
* Galactic cartography by Kevin Jardine.
- published: 21 Jun 2022
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