The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy - WIRED

New data from the ESA’s probe, now eight years into its mission, adds significant detail to its portrait of nearly 2 billion objects in the Milky Way.

There are probably 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, stretched across space in a disk shaped like a ninjas throwing star. Its so big that, traveling at the speed of light, itd still take you 100,00… [+2857 chars]

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