Milky Way Map Gaia. On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy Gaia has pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a stereoscopic and kinematic census of about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group.
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As an added benefit this map of quasars is the largest ever. On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy Gaia has pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. Gaia is an ESA mission to survey more than one billion stars in our Galaxy and its local neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about its structure origin and evolution.
Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy the Milky Way in the process revealing the composition formation and evolution of the Galaxy.
On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy Gaia has pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. Based on the new data the Gaia team arrives at a centripetal acceleration of 7 millimeters per second per year in good agreement with current models of the mass distribution in the Milky Way. The 1 billion spacecraft orbits the Lagrange-2 or L2 point a spot. The Gaia data will also allow astronomers to measure the mass of the Milky Way by analysing the gentle acceleration of the solar system as it orbits around the galaxy.
