Gaia sees stellar nurseries (animation still) (IMAGE)
Caption
This is a still image of the animation showing Gaia’s star-formation map in 3D.
In this animation we fly around the star-formation map in our Milky Way galaxy. The areas that are mapped reach out to 4000 light-years from our Sun. They are shown as reddish clouds.
This map will teach us more about these obscure cloudy areas, and the hot young stars that shape them.
Credit
ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, L. McCallum et al (2025)
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License
CC BY-SA