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usonian

(21,784 posts)
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 07:45 PM Thursday

The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA)

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Fly_through_Gaia_s_3D_map_of_stellar_nurseries

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these obscure cloudy areas, and the hot young stars that shape them.

If you like visualizations, enjoy this show.
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The most accurate 3D map of stellar nurseries in the Milky Way (ESA) (Original Post) usonian Thursday OP
Thanks for that fun show - expecting to hear some Moody Blues or Pink Floyd erronis Thursday #1
This shoould satisfy.... lastlib Friday #2
I f*cking love science! lastlib Friday #3

erronis

(21,685 posts)
1. Thanks for that fun show - expecting to hear some Moody Blues or Pink Floyd
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 08:01 PM
Thursday

As traveling through the universe I would be disoriented without having any sense of up/down or left/right. Everything everywhere all the time!

lastlib

(26,915 posts)
2. This shoould satisfy....
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 08:17 AM
Friday


Also appropos:



"And as old stars would die,
So the new ones were born...."
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