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Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/vNWrY56sIak/esa-releases-largest-star-map-ever-online
ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online
S810 writes: The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a treasure trove of data from its Gaia Spacecraft; totaling around 1.7 billion stars. This star map is the largest of its kind to date. In addition to the star map, the data also contains motion and color data of 1.3 billion stars relative to the Sun. Furthermore, it includes "radial velocities, amount of dust, and surface temperatures of lots of stars, and a catalogue of over 14,000 Solar System objects, including asteroids," reports Gizmodo. You can view the data here, and view a guide for what the data contains and how to use it here.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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