3d Model Of The Milky Way. And although no one ever really. The problem astronomers have typically had in studying the milky way is that because we reside in it it is hard to see the parts that are far away we cannot move outside the galaxy and look at it said radek.
An international research team has built the most in depth 3d model of the milky way galaxy to date using light from thousands of stars. The european space agency s gaia observatory has just released the most precise and detailed 3d map of the milky way to date. Berlin nearly 1 7 billion stars have been plotted in unprecedented detail.
By using a network of 2 000 computers running.
But us regular folks enjoy them as well because they re often quite an eye candy. By calculating the distance from the sun to thousands of pulsating stars across the milky way astronomers have now charted our galaxy in 3d on a larger scale than ever before a new study finds. Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improved 3d model of our galaxy based on direct observation rather than theoretical frameworks. Their report published today in science shows greater detail of the milky way s warp.