...wonder if the #MilkyWay appears like this from another vantage point way out yonder ? #sky #clouds #earth #fall #ourgalaxy #atmos #CloudscapeClub #EastCoastKin

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Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia The European Space Agency’s Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than three trillion observations of about two billion stars and other objects ove...

Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way: from the rotation of #OurGalaxy ’s central bar to the warp of its disc.

But the story is far from over. With further Gaia data releases our view of the Milky Way will become even more accurate 👉
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. The Milky Way bar, different arms and the location of the Sun are indicated.

#ESAGaia has delivered on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before.

Discover more about #ourGalaxy with this slider tool 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Discover your place in #OurGalaxy.

No spacecraft can travel beyond the Milky Way, so we can’t take a selfie, but Gaia is giving us the best insight yet of what our home galaxy looks like 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEZB...

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A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like edge-on, against a pitch-black backdrop. The Milky Way’s disc appears in the centre of the image, as a thin, dark-brown line spanning from left to right, with the hint of a wave in it. The line appears to be etched into a thin glowing layer of silver sand, that makes it look as if it was drawn with a coloured pencil on coarse paper. The bulge of the galaxy sits like a glowing, see-through pearl in the shape of a sphere in the centre of this brown line.

#ESAGaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way.

The mission has shown us that its central bar is more inclined with respect to the Sun than previously thought.

Discover the best map we currently have of #OurGalaxy, seen edge-on, thanks to Gaia 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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A model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way, might look like face-on: as viewed from above the disc of the galaxy, with its spiral arms and bulge in full view. In the centre of the galaxy, the bulge shines as a hazy oval, emitting a faint golden gleam. Starting at the central bulge, several glistening spiral arms coil outwards, creating a perfectly circle-shaped spiral. They give the impression of someone having sprinkled pastel purple glitter on the pitch-black background, in the shape of sparkling, curled-up snakes.

#ESAGaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way.

The mission has shown us that it has more than two spiral arms and that they are less prominent than we previously thought.

Discover the best map we currently have of #OurGalaxy, thanks to Gaia 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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Per oltre un decennio, #ESAGaia ha mappato la nostra Galassia con una precisione sorprendente, riscrivendo la storia della Via Lattea.

Ripercorriamo le scoperte più rivoluzionarie di questa missione 👉📹
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrV7...

#OurGalaxy

For over a decade, #ESAGaia has mapped #OurGalaxy with stunning precision—rewriting the story of the Milky Way.

Take a look back at this mission's most groundbreaking discoveries 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrV7...

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A fun #picturebook teaching kids all about our galaxy while also unfolding to a fun shape!🌌

#BookReview: #OurGalaxy - #AFirstAdventureInSpace by Sue Lowell Gallion & #LiskFeng
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#bookblogger #books #childrensbooks

James Webb Telescope view of Saturn #saturn #ourgalaxy #astronomy

Rule-breaking spinning star discovered by Australian astronomers Australian researchers have discovered a dead star that takes hours rather than milliseconds to spin, challenging scientists' understanding of how these stars form.

16/1 2025

Astronomers discover rule-breaking neutron star with an incredibly slow six-hour spin. — In our galaxy, about 13,000 light-years away, a dead star called ASKAP J1839-075 is breaking all the rules.

www.abc.net.au/news/science...

#Universe #OurGalaxy #RuleBreaking #NeutronStar