Artistic impression of the Milky Way
Tuesday, 14 June 2022
This handout image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday, an artistic impression of the Milky Way, and on top of that an overlay showing the location and densities of a young star sample from Gaia's data release 3 (in yellow-green). The "you are here" sign points towards the Sun. The Gaia space probe unveiled its latest discoveries on Monday, in its quest to map the Milky Way in unprecedented detail, surveying nearly two million stars and revealing mysterious "starquakes" which sweep across the fiery giants like vast tsunamis — AFP