Author: Shannon Stirone / Source: WIRED
This week we’ll be staying local—but not here on Earth, or even in our solar system. We are zooming through our own galaxy, the Milky Way, because the European Space Agency just has released the long-awaited data set from its Gaia spacecraft. Gaia’s mission is to survey the galaxy and go about counting stars, measuring their distances, and generally studying the larger environment that houses our solar system and so many others….
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