From Milky Way to Earth

This video combines a model of the Milky Way created by Stefan Payne-Wardenaar (Twitter: @StefanPWinc) with several Gaia Mission (Twitter: @ESAGaia) maps and data sets to provide a comprehensive view of Earth's place in our home galaxy.

More detailed labelled maps of the regions seen in this video can be found here:
https://gruze.org/posters_dr3/

Data sources: https://gruze.org/posters_dr3/readme.pdf
Music: Kingdom of Fantasy, Lesfm: downloaded from pixabay.com
Galactic cartography: Kevin Jardine (Twitter: @galaxy_map)

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