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ESA’s trippy time-lapse video travels 1.6 million years into the Milky Way’s future – SYFY WIRE
What if you could put your eye to a telescope and actually see what our galaxy will look like in the distant future?
What if you could put your eye to a telescope and actually see what our galaxy will look like in the distant future?
ESA scientists just went there. Using the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3), they have created an animation that shows the evolution of the Milky Way over the next 1.6 million years, though the final frame backtracks to show our galaxy 400,000 years from now for a less confusing image. It lets you look into the future trajectories of 40,000 stars at a distance of about 326 light-years…
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