Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 26, 2018 #1 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy – and beyond Quote ESA’s Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy. A multitude of discoveries are on the horizon after this much awaited release, which is based on 22 months of charting the sky. The new data includes positions, distance indicators and motions of more than one billion stars, along with high-precision measurements of asteroids within our Solar System and stars beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy. Read More: ESA 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiloh Posted April 26, 2018 #2 Share Posted April 26, 2018 So that's what we look like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_mc Posted April 26, 2018 #3 Share Posted April 26, 2018 So ... does anyone feel up for naming all those stars ;-) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted April 26, 2018 #4 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Some life forms must be out there somewhere. It makes me feel so alone to think we are the only planet with life on, but looking all those billions of stars...we can not be! Surely not. I still do not think i will see them find another planet with life similar to ours on it in my life time, but one day? Very likely as the technology is getting better and better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noxasa Posted April 27, 2018 #5 Share Posted April 27, 2018 I can see my house!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odiesbsc Posted April 27, 2018 #6 Share Posted April 27, 2018 13 minutes ago, Noxasa said: I can see my house!!! Is it the one on the right or the left? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McNessy Posted April 27, 2018 #7 Share Posted April 27, 2018 freetoroam theres a life form trillions of light years away wondering the same thing :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMan Posted April 27, 2018 #8 Share Posted April 27, 2018 19 hours ago, fred_mc said: So ... does anyone feel up for naming all those stars ;-) ? Sure. I'll get it started anyway... Star 1, Star 2, Star 3, Star 4. Okay, you guys can do the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paperdyer Posted April 27, 2018 #9 Share Posted April 27, 2018 3 hours ago, MisterMan said: Sure. I'll get it started anyway... Star 1, Star 2, Star 3, Star 4. Okay, you guys can do the rest. Can we number them using base binary instead of base 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 27, 2018 Author #10 Share Posted April 27, 2018 4 hours ago, paperdyer said: Can we number them using base binary instead of base 10? There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMan Posted May 2, 2018 #11 Share Posted May 2, 2018 On 4/27/2018 at 9:19 AM, MisterMan said: Sure. I'll get it started anyway... Star 1, Star 2, Star 3, Star 4. Okay, you guys can do the rest. On 4/27/2018 at 1:10 PM, paperdyer said: Can we number them using base binary instead of base 10? No. Then I'd have to start all over. On 4/27/2018 at 5:26 PM, Waspie_Dwarf said: There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't. I have that T-Shirt somewhere. I need to find it. Thanks for the reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonopahRick Posted May 2, 2018 #12 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Somebody wave your hand so I can figure out where we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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