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DescriptionThe colour of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 ESA22358060.png |
English: Data from more than 1.8 billion stars has been used to create this map of the entire sky. It shows the total brightness and colour of stars observed by ESA’s Gaia satellite and released as part of Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3).
Brighter regions represent denser concentrations of bright stars, while darker regions correspond to patches of the sky where fewer and fainter stars are observed. The colour of the image is obtained by combining the total amount of light with the amount of blue and red light recorded by Gaia in each patch of the sky. The bright horizontal structure that dominates the image is the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It is actually a flattened disc seen edge-on that contains most of the galaxy’s stars. In the middle of the image, the Galactic centre appears bright, and thronged with stars. Darker regions across the Galactic plane correspond to foreground clouds of interstellar gas and dust, which absorb the light of more distant stars. Many of these clouds conceal stellar nurseries where new generations of stars are currently being born. Dotted across the image are also many globular and open clusters, as well as entire galaxies beyond our own. The two bright objects in the lower right of the image are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. Gaia EDR3 was made public on 3 December 2020 and includes the position and brightness of more than 1.8 billion stars, the parallax and proper motion of almost 1.5 billion stars, and the colour of more than 1.5 billion stars. It also includes more than 1.6 million extragalactic sources. A complementary image showing Gaia's density map of the stars is available here. Gaia's all-sky colour view is also available in equirectangular projection (suitable for full-dome presentations) here. Deutsch: Zusammengesetzte Sternkarte aus 1,8 Milliarden Objekten aus dem Gaia EDR3-Katalog. Jeder helle Punkt entspricht der Helligkeit und der Farbe der Objekte. Hellere Bereiche zeigen mehr und hellere Objekte, dunkle Bereiche zeigen weniger und lichtschwächere Objekte. Die Mitte zeigt die Milchstraße mit dunklen Staub- und Gaswolken. Rechts unten die Große und Kleine Magellansche Wolke. Die RGB-Werte für Blau und Rot entsprechen den Werten des Blauen und Roten Photometers, der RGB-Wert für Grün entspricht der G-Magnitude. |
Date | 3 December 2020 (upload date) |
Source | The colour of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3 |
Author | European Space Agency |
Activity InfoField | Space Science |
Mission InfoField | Gaia |
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