Path of 40 thousands stars over the next 400 thousands years

GAIA space observatory’s new map of the Milky Way tracks billions of stars

The Milky Way will have a more detailed map, thanks to all the informations that GAIA gathered in its six years of activity. ESA’s GAIA space observatory was launched in 2013 and began its job in July 2014. Orbiting at 1.5 kilometers away from Earth, the 1$ billion spacecraft is capable to observe 100 thousands …

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