{"id":792689,"date":"2025-01-15T04:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792689"},"modified":"2025-01-15T04:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:55:05","slug":"the-best-milky-way-animation-by-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=792689","title":{"rendered":"The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>This is a new artist\u2019s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA\u2019s Gaia space telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple\u00a0ideas about the nature of our galaxy\u2019s central bar and the spiral arms have been overturned. Gaia has shown us that it\u00a0has more than two spiral arms and that they are less prominent than we\u00a0previously thought. In addition, Gaia has shown that its central bar is more inclined with\u00a0respect to the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>No spacecraft can travel beyond our galaxy, so we can\u2019t take a selfie, but Gaia is giving us the best insight yet of what our home galaxy looks like. Once all of Gaia\u2019s observations collected over the past decade are made available in two upcoming data releases, we can expect an even sharper view of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to download the still image of the Milky Way.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The best Milky Way animation, by Gaia\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5oZ93CPisFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/01\/The_best_Milky_Way_animation_by_Gaia?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new artist\u2019s animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESA\u2019s Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792689","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\/792689","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=792689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}