Spacecraft operations image of the week: This beautiful image of our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t come from any camera. It was derived from Gaia spacecraft pointing data, collected over 18 months and then combined to create a ‘map’ of observed star densities. credit: ESA
ESA’s Gaia is surveying stars in our Galaxy and local galactic neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about its structure, origin and evolution.
