Regardless of the place on Earth you stand, when you have a view of the evening sky, and whether it is darkish sufficient, you possibly can see the Milky Means. The Milky Means is our residence, and its faint clouds of sunshine and shadow have impressed human cultures throughout the globe. And but, our view of the Milky Means is restricted by our perspective. In some ways, we now have discovered extra from different galaxies than from our personal. However when the Gaia spacecraft launched in 2013, all of that modified.
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