Amazing Milky Way Galaxy view created using Gaia data

This animation of the Milky Way galaxy is created from "measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars from the second Gaia data release," according to the European Space Agency. -- Gaia: Mapping a billion stars: https://www.space.com/41312-gaia-mission.html Credit: Data: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; Animation: ESA/ATG medialab, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO