Astronomy / Space Thanks To Gaia We Now Know Exactly Where 1.7 Billion Stars Are In The Milky Way

[Zak Gordon]

Title taken from Fraser Cain's recent youtube on the subject of the probe Gaia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxgdcG_NQyA

A good channel for those that do not know of it already.

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

"I'm sure this will be very useful when someone makes a map of the real galaxy in Elite Dangerous" - a not so subtle hint to David Braben me thinks.