Mapping the Galaxy with Kevin Jardine

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English - December 31, 2022 19:57 - 46 minutes - 108 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratings
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What does our Milky Way really look like? Kevin Jardine is a cartographer working to answer that question by building galactic maps from ESA's Gaia space telescope data. Here he explains a little bit about his process and some of the amazing places he's found and mapped.

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Kevin Jardine's Galaxy Maps:

Galaxy Map poster Gaia DR3 Hot Star Density Map (zoomable)Fantasy Map poster High Resolution Fantasy Map (zoomable)The 10 parsec sample in the Gaia era (our solar neighborhood)

European Space Agency Gaia website

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