2022 July 06 - Milky Way Motion in 3D from Gaia
Channel: APOD Podcast
Date: 2022-07-06

In today's image, we see an all sky image looking at the motions of millions of stars measured by the Gaia satellite. The red motion is motion away and the blue shows motion towards us. 

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