Watch These Stunning Models of the Largest Star Map Ever Created

Watch These Stunning Models of the Largest Star Map Ever Created

  • April 27, 2018
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Watch These Stunning Models of the Largest Star Map Ever Created

Since its launch in December 2013, the European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has been building the largest and most detailed 3D star catalog in history. Located some 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth, the telescope constantly scans our solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, and the wider universe beyond, to log information about the billions of stars and other objects that inhabit these cosmic frontiers.

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