Gaia Early Data Release 3 - the journey of stars 1.6 million years into the future

Animation showing the movement of stars on the sky 1.6 million years into the future, using data from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 catalogue.

This catalogue is published on 3 December 2020 and provides positions, proper motions, brightnesses and colour information for more than 1.8 billion stars.

Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Acknowledgement:
This video and the still images from this video were created by Anthony Brown, based on an idea from Stefan Jordan, and with inputs from Tineke Roegiers, Xavier Luri, Eduard Masana, and Timo Prusti. Background colour image created by André Moitinho.

[SpiritMattersCanada]

Too short but enough to capture the spiralling inwards and outwards captured by my ancestors in their megalithic carvings 5000 years ago and lit still by the rising Solstice sun each December..

[danczer]

Can you upload it in a spherical VR format? We would be able to take a look around, which would be really interesting to do.

[darkhawk]

Does this compensate for the fact the stars we see are where they were when the light left them?

[okazerk]

HAVEN'T SEEN YET A SINGLE PICTURE TAKEN BY THIS THING

[DutchFR]

weird to see the most movement going to either side's end left and right.
and perhaps its a stupid question but now im here there's something i wondered about. its about black holes and our way of detecting and seeing the universe. and again it might be a stupid or crazy question but oke here it go's: We don't know what happen with all the material or light when they enter a black hole. but could it be possible that we actually are in a black hole and that it's the reason why we see the universe in the way we are seeing it now ?

[dniwe]

Ни чего не понятно, но очень интересно

[mir]

Такое мохнатое яйцо я могу сделать без всякого компьютерного моделирования.

[УколВвату-нт]

а нахера оно всралось такое? на что потратили миллионы долларов? на это флэш видео?