{"id":726576,"date":"2022-06-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=726576"},"modified":"2022-06-13T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T08:00:00","slug":"gaias-chemical-map-of-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=726576","title":{"rendered":"Gaia\u2019s chemical map of the Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gaia_s_chemical_map_of_the_Milky_Way_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What stars are made of can tell us about their birthplace and their journey afterwards, and therefore about the history of the Milky Way. With today\u2019s data release, Gaia is bringing us a chemical map of the galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This all-sky view shows a sample of the Milky Way stars in <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Gaia\/Gaia_sees_strange_stars_in_most_detailed_Milky_Way_survey_to_date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gaia\u2019s data release 3<\/a>. The colour indicates the stellar metallicity. Redder stars are richer in metals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Gaia, we see that some stars in our galaxy are made of primordial material, while others like our Sun are made of matter enriched by previous generations of stars. Stars that are closer to the centre and plane of our galaxy are richer in metals than stars at larger distances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2022\/06\/Gaia_s_chemical_map_of_the_Milky_Way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gaia\u2019s chemical map of the Milky Way<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What stars are made of can tell us about their birthplace and their journey afterwards, and therefore about the history of the Milky Way. With today\u2019s data release, Gaia is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726577,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}