Scientists Reveal the appearance of the Milky Way 400 thousand years in the future

Suara.com – Gaia’s Space Observatory belongs European Space Agency (ESA) gives what kind of views sightings Milky Way 400,000 years from now. Exactly when analyzed with the Gaia telescope and involve a simulation.

In a new simulation, ESA made 40,000 stars in the Milky Way streak through space leaving trails of light. Each point of light represents a single real object in the Milky Way and each glowing trail shows the projected motion of the object through the galaxy over the next 400,000 years.

According to ESA scientists, these simulations show a common pattern. At the end of the simulation, most of the stars appear to be clustered on the right side of the screen, while the left side is relatively blank. This occurs because the Sun is constantly moving and causes the passing stars to appear to cluster more in the opposite direction.

“This effect also occurs due to the movement of the Sun towards the stars,” the ESA scientist wrote in a blog post, as quoted Live Science on Friday (11/12/2020).

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The data that makes this cosmic mosaic possible comes from the release of official data on the three publicly available Gaia satellites on December 3. The latest data contains detailed information about more than 1.8 billion celestial bodies, including the positions, speeds and orbital trajectories of more than 330,000 stars within 325 light years from Earth.

The Gaia satellite itself was launched in 2013 to measure the position, distance and motion of stars. The second data release in 2018 helped astronomers compile the most detailed map of the universe.

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