Our Solar Neighbourhood

Since 2013 the European Space Agency Gaia satellite has been measuring the positions and characteristics of nearly two billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. This movie is a flythrough of the nearest 326 light years to the Sun, a region of space that contains around 300,000 stars.

[NZC_Meow]

Thanks for not talking and only giving subtitles. Much more comfortable for watching at night without disturbing anyone.

[adrianotr]

Havin a glimpse of how our galaxy actually is using this geometrically accurate data from the Gaia mission makes me feel amazed. I hope astrophisicists use this material to better understand our spiral arms and the existence (or not) of the central bar. Looking forward to what the next papers will show us🔭

[craftingcraze]

Video with voice link:

I know that it is not professional at all, it was done by me

[janeclark]

A nice demonstration, but profoundly unphysical. Whatever happened to the Lorentz transformation?