{"id":26079,"date":"2024-08-04T04:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26079"},"modified":"2024-08-04T04:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T04:56:44","slug":"26079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26079","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/XORui0wFKnE\/maxresdefault.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>What would it look like to return home from outside our galaxy? Although designed to answer greater questions, data from ESA&#8217;s robotic Gaia mission is helping to provide a uniquely modern perspective on humanity&#8217;s place in the universe. Gaia orbits the Sun near the Earth and resolves stars&#8217; positions so precisely that it can determine a slight shift from its changing vantage point over the course of a year, a shift that is proportionately smaller for more distant stars &#8212; and so determines distance. In the first sequence of the video, an illustration of the Milky Way is shown that soon resolves into a three-dimensional visualization of Gaia star data. A few notable stars are labelled with their common names, while others stars are labelled with numbers from a Gaia catalog. Eventually, the viewer arrives in our stellar neighborhood where many stars were tracked by Gaia, and soon at our home star Sol, the Sun. At the video&#8217;s end, the reflective glow of Sol&#8217;s third planet becomes visible: Earth. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap240804.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would it look like to return home from outside our galaxy? Although designed to answer greater questions, data from ESA&#8217;s robotic Gaia mission is helping to provide a uniquely <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=26079\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-26079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26080,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26079\/revisions\/26080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}