Star-travel 5 Million Years Into The Milky Way’s Future

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[video=youtube;Ag0qsSFJBAk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag0qsSFJBAk[/video]
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Gaze into Gaia’s crystal ball and you will see the future. This video shows the motion of 2,057,050 stars in the coming 5 million years from the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution sample, part of the first data release of European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.

Gaia is a space observatory parked at the L2 Lagrange Point, a stable place in space a million miles behind Earth as viewed from the Sun. Its mission is astrometry: measuring the precise positions, distances and motion of 1 billion astronomical objects (primarily stars) to create a three-dimensional map of the Milky Way galaxy. Gaia’s radial velocity measurements — the motion of stars toward or away from us — will provide astronomers with a stereoscopic and moving-parts picture of about 1% of the galaxy’s stars.

Full Article: https://www.universetoday.com/135052/star-travel-5-million-years-milky-ways-future/