{"id":29768,"date":"2018-10-26T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29768"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:50:52","slug":"3-d-map-of-milky-way-shows-1-7-bn-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/3-d-map-of-milky-way-shows-1-7-bn-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"3-D map of Milky Way shows 1.7 bn stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-life\/3-d-map-of-milky-way-to-revolutionise-astronomy\/article23676331.ece\">3-D map of Milky Way shows 1.7 bn stars<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>450 scientists from 20 countries were involved in the project to catalogue solar system objects<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s Gaia satellite has produced a 3-D map of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy \u2014 complete with their distance from Earth, colour, and motion through space<\/p>\n<p><strong>GAIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launched in 2013, Gaia started operating the following year, gathering data on 1,00,000 stars per minute \u2014 some 500 million measurements per day<\/li>\n<li>Its first map was published in September 2016, based on a year\u2019s worth of observations of about 1.15 billion stars.<\/li>\n<li>An update, launched at the ILA international air and space show in Berlin, adds stars and provides more data on each one, from measurements taken over 22 months in 2014-2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Web of space rocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gaia also revealed the orbits of some 14,000 \u201csolar system objects\u201d \u2014 mapped as an intricate web of space rocks shooting around the sun. \u201cIt represents the most accurate survey ever of asteroids in the solar system<\/p>\n<p><strong>What now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The full data will be published in a series of scientific papers in a special issue of the journal\u00a0Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics\u00a0, laying the foundation for decades of further study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-D map of Milky Way shows 1.7 bn stars Context 450 scientists from 20 countries were involved in the project to catalogue solar system objects What has happened? Europe\u2019s Gaia satellite has produced a 3-D map of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy \u2014 complete with their distance from Earth, colour,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/3-d-map-of-milky-way-shows-1-7-bn-stars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3-D map of Milky Way shows 1.7 bn stars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704715423},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}