草榴社区

Gaia鈥檚 findings on travelling stars

草榴社区's Marina Kounkel used data from Gaia鈥檚 second release to trace the structure and star formation activity of a large patch of space surrounding the solar system, and to explore how this changed over time. This data release, provided in April 2018, lists the motions and positions of over one billion stars with unprecedented precision.