The Milky Way, Transformed.

• Autores: Shannon Hall, Sara Goudarzi
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 315, Nº. 6, 2016, págs. 14-16
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on the development of a map of the Milky Way galaxy from the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft. It states the dataset provides a preliminary position of one billion stars and the sideways motions and distances of the brightest two million stars in the sky. It mentions findings on the Pleiades star cluster and the use of planetary physics to find stars which host interesting planets. It comments the satellite could also help map dark matter distribution in the Milky Way.