00:00Imagine that you're looking at the Milky Way from another galaxy.
00:04No spacecraft can travel beyond our galaxy, so we can't take an actual photo.
00:09But thanks to our Gaia spacecraft, scientists have built the most accurate 3D map of regions
00:15where stars are forming in our Milky Way. This map is based on Gaia's observations
00:23of 44 million ordinary stars and 87 O-type stars. These star-forming regions are well studied.
00:33Many telescopes have captured stunning images of them. But now, for the first time,
00:39we know what they look like in three dimensions and from an outside perspective.
00:46This new animation reaches out to 4,000 light years from the Sun,
00:51giving us our best ever 3D views of where stars are born in our cosmic neighbourhood.
01:30This is the largest sequence, which is an aerial medium of the ocean.
01:30I'm excited to see a video we're looking at, all of the things that happen to you about.
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