The Gaia satellite is tracking over 1 billion stars

A sphere of the Milky Way built from star positions, with a bright vertical stripe of the disk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINs-JcNmKs

After 22 months of observations the Gaia satellite released observations of over 1.7 billion stars. Check out what more it has in store.

Wednesday November 13th 2019