Flight with Gaia Sky 1.5.x using a game controller starting from Earth, moving out of the solar system and randomly flying around the stars in the vicinity of our Sun.

The stars positions are from the TGAS catalogue which is part of the Gaia Data Release 1 ([ Ссылка ]) with some brighter stars taken from the HYG catalogue ([ Ссылка ]).

Two features of Gaia Sky are shown in this video. One are spheres indicating the position of 3006 know open star clusters from the MWSC catalogue ([ Ссылка ]) and nine new star clusters from Röser et al. 2016 ([ Ссылка ]).

The other new feature is the possibility to add isosurfaces ([ Ссылка ]) which can be e.g. used to indicate overdensities of stars. In the video you see isosurfaces showing regions where many hot and massive stars of spectral type O and B are found. The highest densitiy regions are shown in red, the lowest in blue.

Gaia Sky is a real-time, 3D, astronomy visualisation software that runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is developed in the framework of ESA's Gaia mission to chart about 1 billion stars of our Galaxy in the Gaia group of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ZAH, Universität Heidelberg).


This video was rendered with Gaia Sky. Home page: [ Ссылка ]

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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut - Univeristy of Heidelberg
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With the support of DLR and BMWi
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