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SorellaLaBefana

(343 posts) Tue May 13, 2025, 07:25 AM Tuesday

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Another view of our Home from Gaia: This from the Top Down (APOD)

Yesterday's Astronomy Picture of the Day showed a side view of our Home Milky Way Galaxy as reconstructed from a 3D model derived from data collected by the Gaia telescope over this past decade or so.

Today's has a View from the Top.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250513.html

Some details of the Gaia project are in the post I made yesterday
https://www.democraticunderground.com/122892908

We live in the Orion Arm

It is a Big World, and an even Bigger Universe

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Another view of our Home from Gaia: This from the Top Down (APOD) (Original Post) SorellaLaBefana Tuesday OP

Stunning pictures. Almost as if photographed from way out there. erronis Tuesday #1

I remember the "You are here" poster SCantiGOP Thursday #2

erronis

(19,699 posts)

1. Stunning pictures. Almost as if photographed from way out there.

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Tue May 13, 2025, 09:07 AM

Tuesday

Also the images from your prior post.

It's amazing how we (science!) can reconstruct these views from a huge collection of other perspectives.

SCantiGOP

(14,457 posts)

2. I remember the "You are here" poster

Reply to SorellaLaBefana (Original post)

Thu May 15, 2025, 09:07 PM

Thursday

from years ago.

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