About the Soundscape

Cylindrical Gaia satellite under preparation by clean-suited scientists

Gaia

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Missing Details

The Gaia mission has observed billions of stars in the Milky Way, attempting to capture a full map of the movement within it. Many of those stars haven't been observed in detail by other surveys - and so don't appear in the SIMBAD database yet, as there's no extra information to link them to.

Silent Stars

The Gaia satellite is designed to capture light from objects that are incredibly faint, or incredibly distant. As a result, it can't be used to measure stars that are too bright - its camera simply can't cope. So some of the stars that are the most visible in the background image of space aren't included in the data used by this tool.

Cylindrical Gaia satellite under preparation by clean-suited scientists

Proper Motion

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Cylindrical Gaia satellite under preparation by clean-suited scientists

Parallax

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Acknowledgements

A capitalised angular word Aladin over a swirling red and purple galaxy.

This work has made use of "Aladin sky atlas" developed at CDS, Strasbourg Observatory, France.

2022ASPC..532....7B; Aladin Lite v3
A capitalised angular word Simbad over a swirl of blue and green gas.

This work has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France.

2000,A&AS,143,9;"The SIMBAD astronomical database", Wenger et al.
A capitalised angular word Simbad over a swirl of blue and green gas.

This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (link), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, link). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.

An oval view of the full night sky from earth, with a bright central strip of the milky way and dark webs of gas cloud across it.

Background image based on "The colour of the sky from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3".

ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho